Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Burnside Ridges (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Burnside Ridges (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Three roughly parallel ridges running approximately north-east to south-west with their north-easterly extremities terminating at Matusevich Glacier, Oates Land. Sketched and photographed on 20 February, 1959, by Phillip Law, leader of the ANARE on MV Magga Dan. Named after Lieut. Cmdr. I M Burnside, RAN, hydrographic surveyor on the MV Magga Dan during the voyage.
Lieut. Cmdr. I M Burnside, RAN, hydrographic surveyor on the MV Magga Dan in 1959
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