Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Yochelson Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Yochelson Ridge (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge (2d)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A rugged, partly snow-covered ridge, nearly 4 mi long, extending NNW from Eley Peak, Soholt Peaks, in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN aerial photographs, 1961-66. Named by US-ACAN after Ellis L. Yochelson, USGS geologist at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC; paleontologist with the USARP Ellsworth Mountains Expedition, 1979-80.
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