Murcray Heights
| Murcray Heights | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 5 ' S , 162 ° 13' E | |
The Murcray Heights are a group of distinctive and up to 3,091 m high mountains in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, they loom at the southern end of Sickle Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1994 after the brothers David Guy Murcray (1924–2009) and Frank H. Murcray (1930–1992) from the University of Denver , long-time experts in infrared spectroscopic studies in Antarctica .
Web links
- Murcray Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murcray Heights on geographic.org (English)