Perry Range
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.jpg) Perry Range |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 0 ′ S , 134 ° 12 ′ W | |
The Perry Range is a narrow and about 10 km long mountain range on the Hobbs coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It separates the lower sections of the Venzke and Berry glaciers where they merge into the Getz ice shelf .
The mountain range was discovered and photographed during an overflight during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) in December 1940. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1974 after Lieutenant John E. Perry of the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy , the 1968 responsible for public relations at the McMurdo station and from May 1971 worked as a project manager at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Perry Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Perry Range on geographic.org (English)