Hershey Ridge
{{Short description|Ridge}}
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Hershey Ridge ({{Coord|77|40|S|147|10|W|name=Hershey Ridge}}) is a low, ice-covered ridge trending in a northwest–southeast direction for about {{convert|30|nmi}} between McKinley Peak and the Haines Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=331}}
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Location
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File:C77141s1 Ant.Map Boyd Glacier.jpg
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.{{sfn|Boyd Glacier USGS}}
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.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=331}}
Features
=Dickinson Rocks=
{{coord|77|33|S|147|55|W}}.
Isolated rock outcrops near the north end of Hershey Ridge, {{convert|9|nmi}} 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.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=188}}
=Gregory Rock=
{{coord|77|40|S|147|46|W}}.
A rock that outcrops above the ice slopes of western Hershey Ridge, {{convert|7|nmi}} 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.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=295}}
=Linwood Peak=
{{coord|77|36|S|147|13|W}}.
An isolated peak on Hershey Ridge, standing {{convert|14|nmi}} 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).{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=436}}
References
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Sources
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- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2
|editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G.
|publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}} {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Board on Geographic Names}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C77141s1_Ant.Map_Boyd_Glacier.jpg |accessdate=2024-03-25
|title=Boyd Glacier |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey |ref={{harvid|Boyd Glacier USGS}} }}
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- {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Geological Survey}}