Raymond Ice Ridge
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 35 ′ S , 135 ° 0 ′ W | |
Raymond Ice Ridge is a ridge of press ice on the Siple Coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It lies between the Bindschadler and Kamb Ice Streams . At its western end rises the Siple Dome .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named this object in 2003 after the US geophysicist Charles F. Raymond of the University of Washington , who carried out several on-site studies from 1994 to 2002 on the historical development of the ice flow system in Marie Byrd Land .
Web links
- Raymond Ice Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Raymond Ice Ridge on geographic.org (English)