McElroy Ridge
| McElroy Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 37 ′ S , 168 ° 3 ′ E | |
McElroy Ridge is a high and 25.5 km long ridge in the Victory Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is bounded by the Gruendler Glacier , Trainer Glacier , Trafalgar Glacier and Rudolph Glacier .
Part of the ridge was mapped by participants in the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1957-1958). A detailed mapping was carried out on the basis of survey work by the United States Geological Survey and with the help of aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1973 after the American biochemist William D. McElroy (1917-1999), Director of the National Science Foundation from 1969 to 1972.
Web links
- McElroy Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McElroy Ridge on geographic.org (English)