| Parent: | Pensacola Mountains |
| Coordinates: | -83.3333°N -80°W |
| Map: | Antarctica |
| Label Position: | none |
The Saratoga Table (-83.3333°N -80°W) is a high, flat, snow-covered plateau, long and wide, standing just south of Kent Gap and Lexington Table in the southern Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica.
The Saratoga Table was discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 on a transcontinental nonstop flight by personnel of United States Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the vicinity of the Weddell Sea and return. I was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for the USS Saratoga of 1926, one of the first large aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.
The Saratoga Table is bounded by the Support Force Glacier to the east and the Median Snowfield to the southwest.It is separated from the Lexington Table to the north by May Valley, Kent Gap and Chambers Glacier.Features, clockwise from the north, include Sorna Bluff, Mount Hummer, Mount Hook, Ronald Rock, Skidmore Cliff, Vigen Cliffs, Gabbro Crest, Sheriff Cliffs, Fierle Peak, Dyrdal Peak, Mount Stephens, Magnetite Bluff, Mathis Spur, Burmester Dome and Huie Cliffs.Features in the snowfield to the southeast include Haskill Nunatak, Ray Nunatak, Beiszer Nunatak, Grob Ridge and Coal Rock.
Most of the features were mapped by the USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photographs in 1956–66.
-83.3°N -61°W. A nearly flat snow-covered valley along the west flank of Forrestal Range, at the juncture of the Lexington and Saratoga Tables. Named by US-ACAN for Walter H. May, aerographer at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.2833°N -80°W. An ice-filled gap connecting the heads of May Valley and Chambers Glacier and marking the divide between Lexington and Saratoga Tables.Named by US-ACAN for Kenneth K. Kent, electronics technician at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.3°N -90°W. A prominent rock bluff on the north side of Saratoga Table, overlooking the head of May Valley. Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Commander Ronald E. Sorna, United States Navy, pilot on photographic flights in the Pensacola Mountains.
-83.2833°N -56°W. A snow-covered, bluff-type mountain on the southwest side of the head of Chambers Glacier, northeast Saratoga Table. Named by US-ACAN in 1979 after Doctor Michael G. Hummer, M.D., Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, a researcher in biomedicine and the physician at South Pole Station, winter party 1975.
-83.3333°N -50°W. A mountainous snow-covered projection from the east side of Saratoga Table, southeast of Sorna Bluff. Named by US-ACAN in 1979 after Lieutenant Richard M. Hook, United States Navy, Medical Officer at South Pole Station, winter party 1969.
-83.3333°N -74°W. A prominent rock, high, along the cliff next north of Skidmore Cliff, located east of Saratoga Table. Named by US-ACAN for Ronald D. Brown, aviation structural mechanic at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.4°N -79°W. An irregular east-facing cliff, long, located at the extremity of a spur trending eastward from Saratoga Table. Named by US-ACAN for Donald D. Skidmore, ionospheric scientist at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.3833°N -57°W. Cliffs rising to about high to the east of Gabbro Crest. Named by US-ACAN in 1979 for Oscar C. Vigen, Budget and Planning Officer, Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1968-85.
-83.4667°N -72°W. The crest about high of the mountain spur between Sheriff Cliffs and Vigen Cliffs on the southeast edge of Saratoga Table. So named in 1979 by US-ACAN, at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford, USGS geologist, from the dominant rock type of the Forrestal Range.
-83.4°N -87°W. Cliffs rising to about high to the west of Gabbro Crest. Named by US-ACAN in 1979 after Steven D. Sheriff, geologist, Western Washington State University, Bellingham, WA, who worked in this area, 1978-79.
-83.4167°N -108°W. A sharp peak, high, standing east-southeast of Dyrdal Peak at the south extremity of Saratoga Table. Named by US-ACAN for Gerard R. Fierle, meteorologist at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.4167°N -74°W. A peak, high, standing at the southwest extremity of Saratoga Table, west-northwest of Fierle Peak. Named by US-ACAN for Frederick F. Dyrdal, aviation structural mechanic at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.3833°N -78°W. A prominent mountain, high, surmounting the west extremity of Saratoga Table.Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66.Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Commander H.E. Stephens, United States Navy, leader of the unit from Mobile Construction Battalion One which constructed Ellsworth Station in January-February, 1957.
-83.3667°N -66°W. A bluff northeast of Mount Stephens on the west side of Saratoga Table. Named by US-ACAN, 1979, at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford and following USGS geological work in the area, from the extensive occurrences of magnetite in the gabbro of this area which cause large magnetic anomalies over the Forrestal Range.
-83.3333°N -68°W. A rock spur along the west side of Saratoga Table, north of Mount Stephens. Named by US-ACAN for Melvin Mathis, hospital corpsman at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.3667°N -106°W. An ice-capped dome rising to high in west-central Saratoga Table. At the suggestion of USGS party leader Arthur B. Ford, named by US-ACAN after Russell F. Burmester, geologist, Western Washington State University, Bellingham, WA, who worked in the Forrestal Range, 1978-79.
-83.3167°N -54°W. Steep rock cliffs rising above May Valley and forming the northwest edge of Saratoga Table. Named by US-ACAN for Carl Huie, technician in Antarctica, 1976-77, and geologist with USGS in the Pensacola Mountains, 1978-79.
Features to the southwest of the table include:
-83.4°N -51.7667°W.A linear group of hills with prominent rock outcrops, long, at the southwest end of Saratoga Table. Named features in the group include Haskill Nunatak, near the center, and Ray Nunatak and Beiszer Nunatak at the aouth end. Named after Glen R. Himmelberg, Department of Geology, University of Missouri-Columbia. His laboratory research and scientific reporting with A.B. Ford (1973-91) on the petrology of Antarctica and specifically on the Dufek intrusion of the northern Pensacola Mountains was critical for the understanding of the evolution of this major igneous complex.
-83.4°N -96°W. An elongate nunatak, high, standing west of Dyrdal Peak in southern Forrestal Range. Named by US-ACAN for Robert E. Haskill, radioman at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.4667°N -109°W. A nunatak, high, located just north of Beiszer Nunatak and southwest of Dyrdal Peak in southern Forrestal Range. Named by US-ACAN for James A. Ray, utilities man at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.4833°N -108°W. A nunatak, high, standing south of Ray Nunatak at the southwest end of Forrestal Range. Named by US-ACAN for John E. Beiszer, aviation structural mechanic at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
-83.4833°N -73°W. A narrow ridge, long, located south of Dyrdal Peak at the south end of Forrestal Range. Named by US-ACAN for Richard W. Grob, cook at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.
See main article: Coal Rock. -83.4833°N -88°W. A prominent nunatak lying southeast of Fierle Peak at the south end of Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains. Named by Dwight L. Schmidt, USGS geologist to these mountains, for the Permian coal that is well exposed on the nunatak.