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)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Madey Ridge (GBR) | 83° 27' 00.0" S | 56° 05' 00.0" W | Ridge |
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Name ID: 109970
Place ID: 8838
running NW-SE and rising to 1115m in Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66; named after Jules Madey, of Clark, NJ, ham radio operator who with B. Gillies (Gillies Rock, q.v.) was helpful to USARP personnel, especially to those in Pensacola Mountains (USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.5). |
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| Madey Ridge (USA) | 83° 28' 00.0" S | 55° 50' 00.0" W | Ridge |
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Name ID: 128329
Place ID: 8838
A ridge trending NW from Mount Moffat along the N side of Berquist Ridge in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Jules Madey of Clark, NJ, ham radio operator who arranged innumerable phone patches between personnel in Antarctica and parties in the U.S. in the period 1957-67. |
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