Hershey Ridge

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox mountain Hershey Ridge (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) is a low, ice-covered ridge trending in a northwest–southeast direction for about Script error: No such module "convert". between McKinley Peak and the Haines Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.Template:Sfn

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Location

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Hershey Ridge is southwest of map

Hershey Ridge is in the Ford Ranges, west of the Haines Mountains and northeast of McKinley Peak. It runs in a northwest direction to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf to the south of Steventon Island. Features include Dickinson Rocks, Gregory Rock and Linwood Peak.Template:Sfn

Discovery and name

Hershey Ridge was discovered in 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), and named for Garland Hershey, Assistant State Geologist of the Iowa Geological Survey (1939–47) and Director of the Iowa Geological Survey after 1947.Template:Sfn

Features

Dickinson Rocks

Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. Isolated rock outcrops near the north end of Hershey Ridge, Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Linwood Peak. Mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939-41) and by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos (1959-65). Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for David N. Dickinson, construction mechanic, United States Navy, at Brockton Station (80|S, 178|W) on the Ross Ice Shelf for two seasons, 1965-66 and 1966-67.Template:Sfn

Gregory Rock

Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. A rock that outcrops above the ice slopes of western Hershey Ridge, Script error: No such module "convert". west-southwest of Linwood Peak. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for Elmer D. Gregory, aviation maintenance line crew supervisor at Williams Field, McMurdo Sound, during Operation Deep Freeze 1967.Template:Sfn

Linwood Peak

Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. An isolated peak on Hershey Ridge, standing Script error: No such module "convert". west of Mount Ronne. Discovered and mapped by the USAS (1939–41). Named by US-ACAN for Linwood T. Miller, sailmaker with the ByrdAE (1933-35).Template:Sfn

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