Hershey Ridge
| Hershey Ridge | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 40 ′ S , 147 ° 10 ′ W | |
 Topographic map showing Hershey Ridge in the Ford Ranges (left of center) |
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Hershey Ridge is a low, icy and around 50 km long mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Ford Ranges it rises with northwest-southeast orientation between McKinley Peak and the Haines Mountains .
Participants in the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him. It is named after the American geologist Howard Garland Hershey (1905–2000), head of the Iowa Geological Survey from 1947.
Web links
- Hershey Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hershey Ridge on geographic.org (English)