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Aronson Corner () is the cliffed extremity of a snow-capped ridge between Mummery Cliff and Chevreul Cliffs in Pioneers Escarpment,
Shackleton Range The Shackleton Range () is a mountain range in Antarctica that rises to and extends in an east–west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery Glaciers. Surveys The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), which in 1956 s ...
. It was photographed from the air by the
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, 1967, and surveyed by the
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, 1968–71. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel, it was named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
after Louis V. Aronson, American founder of the Ronson Corporation, who in about 1910 developed the first practical petrol
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, known originally as the "trench match."


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* Ridges of Coats Land {{CoatsLand-geo-stub