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]

References

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).

Coordinates: 70°25′S 65°50′E / 70.417°S 65.833°E / -70.417; 65.833

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