Runyon skirt
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 Topographic map of the Crary Mountains with Runyon Rock (scale 1: 250,000) |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Crary Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 116 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Runyon rock is a distinctive rocky outcrop in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Crary Mountains, it rises on the north side of Boyd Ridge .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1975 after William E. Runyon, US Navy construction electrician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1969 and 1974.
Web links
- Runyon Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
- Runyon Rock on geographic.org (English).