Hershey Ridge () is a low, ice-covered ridge trending in a northwest–southeast direction for about between McKinley Peak and the Haines Mountains, in the

Ford Ranges The Ford Ranges () are a collection of mountain groups and ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Location The Ford Ranges lie along the coast of Marie Byrd Land to the s ...

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 centu ...

, Antarctica.

Location

Hershey Ridge is in the

, west of the Haines Mountains and northeast of McKinley Peak. It runs in a northwest direction to the

Sulzberger Ice Shelf Sulzberger Ice Shelf () is an ice shelf about long and wide bordering the coast of Marie Byrd Land between Edward VII Peninsula and Guest Peninsula in Antarctica. Exploration and name The Sulzberger Ice Shelf was observed and roughly mapped b ...

to the south of Steventon Island. Features include Dickinson Rocks, Gregory Rock and Linwood Peak.

Discovery and name

Hershey Ridge was discovered in 1934 by the

Byrd Antarctic Expedition Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an United States Navy, American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and e ...

(ByrdAE), and named for Garland Hershey, Assistant State Geologist of the Iowa Geological Survey (1939–47) and Director of the Iowa Geological Survey after 1947.

Features

Dickinson Rocks

. Isolated rock outcrops near the north end of Hershey Ridge, northwest of Linwood Peak. Mapped by the

United States Antarctic Service The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the ...

(USAS) (1939-41) and by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos (1959-65). Named by the United States

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 ...

(US-ACAN) for David N. Dickinson, construction mechanic, United States Navy, at Brockton Station (80, S, 178, W) on the Ross Ice Shelf for two seasons, 1965-66 and 1966-67.

Gregory Rock

. A rock that outcrops above the ice slopes of western Hershey Ridge, west-southwest of Linwood Peak. Mapped by the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on Mar ...

(USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for Elmer D. Gregory, aviation maintenance line crew supervisor at Williams Field, McMurdo Sound, during Operation Deep Freeze 1967.

Linwood Peak

. An isolated peak on Hershey Ridge, standing west of Mount Ronne. Discovered and mapped by the USAS (1939–41). Named by US-ACAN for Linwood T. Miller, sailmaker with the ByrdAE (1933-35).

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