McCafferty trail
| McCafferty trail | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 17 ′ S , 156 ° 4 ′ E | |
McCafferty Trail is a rock spur in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Cook Mountains, it rises 9 km northwest of Mount Ayres on the north side of Butcher Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2001 after the geophysicist Anne McCafferty of the United States Geological Survey , who was involved in aeromagnetic surveys of the Ross Ice Shelf between 1991 and 1992 and, in collaboration with German scientists, of the Butcher Ridge and the Cook Mountains.
Web links
- McCafferty trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCafferty Spur on geographic.org (English)