Massey Heights
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 58 ′ S , 57 ° 58 ′ W | |
The Massey Heights are a striking, flat-topped ridge with steep cliffs on the West Antarctic James Ross Island . They rise 10 km southwest of Andreassen Point . The 844 m high Cerro Ortega is one of them .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out surveys in 1945 and 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1957 after Paul Mackintosh Orgill Massey (1926-2009), a rowing participant in the Olympic Games in 1948 and 1952 and a doctor of the FIDS on the Hope Bay station in 1955.
Web links
- Massey Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Massey Heights on geographic.org (English)