Shurley Ridge
| Shurley Ridge | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 55 ′ S , 65 ° 22 ′ W | |
Shurley Ridge is a partially snow-covered mountain ridge in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it extends 10 km southeast of Snake Ridge, starting from the southwest side of Mackin Table .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the US sleep doctor Jay Talmadge Shurley (1917-2004), who together with the US -American psychiatrist Chester Pierce (* 1927) from 1966 to 1967 examined psychophysiology in the sleeping and waking state of scientists before, during and after their stay at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Shurley Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shurley Ridge on geographic.org (English)