Editing Neptune Range (section)

==Exploration and name==
The Neptune Range was discovered and photographed on 13 January 1956 on a [[United States Navy]] transcontinental plane flight from [[McMurdo Sound]] to [[Weddell Sea]] and return.
It was named by United States [[Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names|US-ACAN]] after the Navy [[P-2 Neptune|P2V-2N "Neptune"]] aircraft with which this flight was made. 
The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by [[United States Geological Survey]] (USGS) in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and United States Navy tricamera [[aerial photography|aerial photographs]] taken in 1964.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=521}}