Conway Ice Ridge is an ice ridge between Whillans Ice Stream and Mercer Ice Stream on the Gould Coast,

Marie Byrd Land Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...

. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

after Howard B. Conway of the Department of Geophysics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was United States Antarctic Program geophysicist at

Siple Dome Siple Dome () is an ice dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of Siple Coast in Antarctica. Charles Bentley and Robert Thomas established a "strain rosette" on this feature to determine ice movement in ...

, 1994–95 and at

Meserve Glacier The Wright Valley, named for Sir Charles Wright, is the central one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . Wright Valley contains the Onyx River, the longest river in Ant ...

, 1995–96, and team leader in glacial history study of this ice ridge, 2001–02.

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* Ridges of Marie Byrd Land {{MarieByrdLand-geo-stub