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)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Hughes Ridge (USA) | 72° 21' 20.0" S | 167° 41' 11.0" E | |
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Name ID: 136948
Place ID: 18618
A ridge, 3.5 miles long, running northeast-southwest and rising ì to 2420 meters on the east side of Lawson Glacier in ì Cartographers Range, Victoria Land. Named by US-ACAN (2009) after ì Dwight Sturtevant Hughes, Senior Software Engineer and Technical ì Team Leader in support of US Geological Survey"s Geographic Names ì Information System, 1993-2009; responsible for complete redesign ì and reprogramming of GNIS and integration with geospatial ì information technology, 1997, allowing efficient maintenance, ì public access and display of the Antarctic name database through ì the Internet. |
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