Lackey Ridge
| Lackey Ridge | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Horlick Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 116 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
Lackey Ridge is a 6 km long mountain ridge with an east-west orientation in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains , it forms the western end of the Buckeye Table .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1962 after the American geologist Larry Lee Lackey (* 1932), participant in the Ohio State University expedition to the Horlick Mountains (1960-1961).
Web links
- Lackey Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lackey Ridge on geographic.org (English)