Neptune Range

Key mountains

• Astro Peak is a peak, 835 m, standing 1 mile off the west end of Berquist Ridge. So named by US-ACAN because the USGS established an astro control station on this peak during the 1965-66 season.
• Mount Dasinger is a mountain, 1,360 m, standing 6 nautical miles northeast of Neith Nunatak in northern Neptune Range. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant James R. Dasinger, U.S. Navy, of the Ellsworth Station winter party, 1958.
• Mount Torbert is a prominent, pyramidal rock peak, 1,675 m, midway along Torbert Escarpment in the Neptune Range. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 on the transcontinental nonstop plane flight by personnel of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Commander John H. Torbert, U.S. Navy, pilot of the aircraft making this flight.

  Key geographical features

• Gillies Rock is an isolated rock lying 6 nautical miles north of Mount Dasinger. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Betty Gillies, ham radio operator of San Diego, CA, who for several seasons from 1960-70 arranged phone patches for members of USGS field parties in the Thiel Mountains, Pensacola Mountains, and elsewhere in Antarctica.

  Features

Williams Hills

Schmidt Hills

Other features