Porthos Range

The Porthos Range is the second range south in the Prince Charles Mountains, extending for about 30 miles in an east-to-west direction between Scylla Glacier and Charybdis Glacier. First visited in December 1956 by the ANARE southern party under W.G. Bewsher and named after Porthos, a character in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.^[1]

Latitude: 702500S Longitude: 0655000E

References

"Porthos Range". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:11968. Retrieved 31 May 2010. 

External links

• Australian Antarctic Division
• Australian Antarctic Gazetteer
• United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• PDF Map of the Australian Antarctic Territory

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Porthos Range" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).