Kinsey Ridge
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 23 ′ S , 139 ° 8 ′ W | |
 Map sheet Hull Glacier from 1969, upper part of the Strauss Glacier with Kinsey Ridge on the western edge of the map |
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Kinsey Ridge is a partially icy mountain ridge with a flattened summit crown in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . It rises near the Ruppert coast in the middle of the Strauss glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 by James H. Kinsey, auroral scientists of the United States Antarctic Research Program on the Byrd Station in 1963.
Web links
- Kinsey Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kinsey Ridge on geographic.org (English)