🏔️ Mount McCarthy (Prince Charles Mountains)

Antarctica · Antarctica · 70.40°S, 66.54°E

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The Porthos Range is the second range south in the Prince Charles Mountains of Antarctica, extending for about 30 miles in an east-to-west direction between Scylla Glacier and Charybdis Glacier. First visited in December 1956 by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) southern party under W.G. Bewsher (1956-57) and named after Porthos, a character in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.

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CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)70.40°S, 66.54°E · view on map

Mount McCarthy (Prince Charles Mountains) is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More mountain ranges in Antarctica

Achaean Range · Adams Mountains · Admiralty Mountains · Alamein Range · Alexandra Mountains · Allegheny Mountains (Antarctica) · Ames Range · Amphitheatre Peaks · Anare Mountains · Anderson Massif.

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