McClary Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 54 ′ S , 64 ° 9 ′ W | |
McClary Ridge is a narrow and crescent-shaped mountain ridge on the Foyn Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the south side of the Cole Peninsula, it rises 8 km south-southeast of Mount Hayes .
In December 1947, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys while participants in the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) took first aerial photographs. The expedition leader Finn Ronne named the mountain ridge after George Brewer McClary from Winnetka , Illinois , a sponsor of the research trip .
Web links
- McClary Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McClary Ridge on geographic.org (English)