Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Cairn Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cairn Ridge (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to 1010m on N side of Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains, was surveyed by a US traverse party from "Ellsworth Station" in 1957 and photographed from the air by USN in 1964; named from the cairn erected on the summit in 1957 (USGS sheet SU 21-25/7, 1969; APC, 1974, p.3).
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