Forrestal Range

The Forrestal Range () is a largely snow-covered mountain range, about 105 km (65 mi) long, standing east of Dufek Massif and the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 on a transcontinental patrol plane flight of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the vicinity of the Weddell Sea and return.

Named by the US-ACAN after the USS Forrestal, first supercarrier of the U.S. Navy. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by USGS in 1967 and 1968 from U.S. Navy tricamera aerial photographs taken in 1964.

List of mountains

• Abele Spur () is a rock spur that descends west from Mount Lechner toward the Herring Nunataks. It was named by US-ACAN)at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford for Gunars Abele, civil engineer on the 1973-74 United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP)-CRREL survey in this area.

• Blount Nunatak () is a prominent nunatak, 1,630 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Lechner on the west side of Forrestal Range. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 during a U.S. Navy transcontinental nonstop plane flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for Hartford E. Blount, aviation machinists mate with U.S. Navy Squadron VX during Operation Deep Freeze, 1956.

• Cooke Crags () are rock crags on the ice......
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