LeMay Range
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 1 ′ S , 69 ° 3 ′ W | |
The LeMay Range is a mountain range 64 km long and up to 2000 m high in the center of Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It stretches from the Snick Pass to the Uranus Glacier in a northwest-southeast orientation .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth saw them for the first time during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The resulting photographs were used by Ellsworth's compatriot, the geographer WLG Joerg , to map the northern and eastern sections. She was spotted again during an overflight as part of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . Ronne named the mountain range after General Curtis E. LeMay (1906-1990), then deputy head of the research and development associations of the United States Army Air Forces , which equipped the expedition with equipment. Ronnes aerial photographs were used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for a new mapping.
Web links
- LeMay Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- LeMay Range on geographic.org (English)