McCarthy Ridge
| McCarthy Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Eisenhower Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 37 ′ S , 163 ° 3 ′ E | |
McCarthy Ridge is a wide and mostly icy ridge with steep slopes in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the east face of the Carnein Glacier in the southeast of the Eisenhower Range .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and using aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1955 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Peter C. McCarthy, administrator of the biological laboratory at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1966 .
Web links
- McCarthy Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCarthy Ridge on geographic.org (English)