Ricker Dome

Ricker Dome
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height	1720 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Nash Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 82 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E

The Ricker Dome is an ice-free and 1720 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Nash Range, it rises 3 miles east of Smith Bluff .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Karl E. Ricker, biologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program on the McMurdo Station in 1961.

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