Name details

Sechrist Ridge

Sechrist Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Sechrist Ridge  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 136683

Feature type: None recorded.

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A narrow rock spur, 3km long, descending north-east from the central ridge just east of Mount Evans and terminating 4km north-east of Mount Bevilacqua, Saint Johns Range, Victoria Land. Topographic map: Debenham 2d (1:50,000). Named by US-ACAN (2007) after Daniel Robert Sechrist, U. S. Geological Survey geographer from 1980 involved in traditional mapping, digital mapping and mapping research; from 2004, manager of the U.S. Antarctic Resource Center at USGS, Reston, VA; a member of the USGS Survey team deployed to McMurdo Dry Valleys, November-December 2004.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
77° 14' 00.0" S
-77.23333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 25' 00.0" E
162.41667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

new adopted name (Wendy, 13.6.08)

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Apr-2008

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