Meteorite Hills#Score Ridge
{{Short description|Group of hills in Antartica}}
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The Meteorite Hills ({{coord|79|40|S|155|36|E|source:GNIS|name=Meteorite Hills}}) are a group of hills, {{Convert|11|nmi}} long, forming the western portion of the Darwin Mountains in Antarctica. The hills are located between the heads of Darwin Glacier and Hatherton Glacier.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|pp=487–488}}
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Name
The name was proposed by John O. Annexstad of the Meteorite Working Group at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, in association with field work carried out in this vicinity by the Antarctic Search for Meteorites, led by William A. Cassidy of the University of Pittsburgh, during the 1978–79 season.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|pp=487–488}}
Location
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File:C79204s1 Ant.Map Turnstile Ridge.jpg
The Meteorite Hills are in the northwest of the Darwin Mountains.
The Darwin Névé and Darwin Glacier lie to their north.
Turnstile Ridge is to the southwest, and the head of the Hatherton Glacier is to the south.{{sfn|Turnstyle Ridge USGS}}
Features
=Mason Nunatak=
{{coord|-79.65|155.25}}.
A nunatak {{convert|1|nmi}} long at the northwest end of the Meteorite Hills.
Named after Brian Mason of the Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, who examined and classified meteorites collected by United States Antarctic Project (USAP) field parties directed by W.A. Cassidy in seven austral summers, 1977-78 through 1983-84.{{sfn|Mason Nunatak USGS}}
=Score Ridge=
{{coord|-79.65|155.8833333}}.
A rock ridge {{convert|2.5|nmi}} northwest of Lindstrom Ridge in north-central Meteorite Hill.
Named after Roberta Score, manager of the Antarctic Meteorite Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 1978-96; member of ANSMET meteorite search teams in several areas of the Transantarctic Mountains, 1984-85 and 1988-89 field seasons; supervisor, Crary Science and Engineering Center (McMurdo), 1996-2001.{{sfn|Score Ridge USGS}}
=Lindstrom Ridge=
{{coord|-79.7166667|156}}.
A ridge on the west side of Green Glacier.
The ridge is {{convert|4|nmi}} long and forms the east end of Meteorite Hills.
Named after Marilyn Lindstrom, curator of Antarctic meteorites at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, for many years up to 2000.{{sfn|Lindstrom Ridge USGS}}
=Tether Rock=
{{coord|-79.6666667|156.15}}.
A rock outlier {{convert|1|nmi}} north of Lindstrom Ridge.
The rock marks the north margin of ice-covered Access Slope, a route through the Circle Icefall of upper Darwin Glacier.
Named in association with Lindstrom Ridge, to which Tether Rock appears to be subglacially connected.{{sfn|Tether Rock USGS}}
=Access Slope=
{{coord|-79.6833333|156.05}}.
An ice slope between the north end of Lindstrom Ridge and Tether Rock.
The slope is at the west end of the Circle Icefall in Darwin Glacier and appears to be the only route through the icefall.
Descriptively named by the Darwin Glacier Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), 1956-58, which made the first descent of the glacier.{{sfn|Access Slope USGS}}
References
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Sources
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- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18170
|name=Access Slope}}
- {{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}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18169
|name=Lindstrom Ridge}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18166
|name=Mason Nunatak}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18168
|name=Score Ridge}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18171
|name=Tether Rock}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C79204s1_Ant.Map_Turnstile_Ridge.jpg |accessdate=2024-03-12
|title=Turnstyle Ridge |year=1963 |publisher=USGS United States Geologic Survey |ref={{harvid|Turnstyle Ridge USGS}} }}
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