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Aguilera

Aguilera (Volcán Aguilera) is a 2,546 m dacitic stratovolcano in the southernmost Chilean Andes, part of the Austral Volcanic Zone, whose large eruption around 1253 BCE left a widespread ash layer used to date Patagonian sediments.

Cerro Arenales

Cerro Arenales, a 3,437 m stratovolcano on Chile's Northern Patagonian Ice Field, first climbed in 1958 by a Chilean-Japanese expedition; distinct from a 3,400 m trekking peak of the same name near Vallecitos, Mendoza, Argentina.

Cerro Balmaceda

Cerro Balmaceda (Monte Balmaceda), a glaciated Patagonian mountain in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, Chile, at the head of fiordo Última Esperanza near Puerto Natales; first climbed 1957, with only four recorded ascents through 2005.

Cerro Mellizo Sur

Cerro Mellizo Sur ("South Twin") names two mountains: a 1,671 m hill in Laguna Blanca National Park, Neuquén, Argentina, and a ~3,340 m Patagonian Andes peak in Aysén, Chile, also called Cerro Steffen.

Cerro Paine Grande

Cerro Paine Grande, highest peak of the Paine Massif in Torres del Paine National Park, Chilean Patagonia; glaciated ice mountain with four summits, first climbed in 1957 by the Guido Monzino expedition, elevation reported as 3,050 m or 2,884 m.

Lautaro

Lautaro (Volcán Lautaro) is an ice-covered dacitic stratovolcano, the northernmost and highest volcano of the Andes' Austral Volcanic Zone, on the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile; last erupted 1979, active since ca. 0.17 Ma.

Maca

Maca (Volcán Macá) is a glacier-covered stratovolcano in Aysén, Chile, on the Liquiñe-Ofqui fault zone; last confirmed eruption about 1560 CE, MAC1 tephra eruption ~1,440 cal years BP.

Monte San Lorenzo

Mount San Lorenzo (Monte San Lorenzo, Cerro Cochrane), a 3,706 m Patagonian peak on the Chile-Argentina border near Cochrane; first ascent 1943 by de Agostini, first winter ascent 2004 by Besser's team.

Monte Sarmiento (Tierra del Fuego)

Monte Sarmiento, also Volcán Nevado, is a 2,207 m pyramidal glaciated peak at the west end of the Cordillera Darwin, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, in Alberto de Agostini National Park; first climbed in 1956, second ascent only in 2013.

Monte Zeballos

Monte Zeballos (Cerro Zeballos) is a volcanic Andean peak in Lago Buenos Aires department, Santa Cruz, Argentina, about 2,748 m high, first ascended solo by Oscar Biott in 2004, landmark of scenic Provincial Route 41.