Scaife Mountains
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 6 ′ S , 65 ° 8 ′ W | |
The Scaife Mountains are a group of mountains in the south of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They tower west of the Prehn Peninsula between the Ketchum Glacier and the Ueda Glacier .
They were discovered during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne , who named them after the entrepreneur Alan Magee Scaife (1900-1958) from Pittsburgh , a sponsor of the expedition.
Web links
- Scaife Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scaife Mountains on geographic.org (English)