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244: 38: 31: 430: 343:. Pointed ice-free peak, 1,805 metres (5,922 ft) high, the northeasternmost summit in the Finger Ridges. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by US-ACAN for Benny F. Seay, a member of the U.S. Army aviation support unit for Topo North and Topo South (1961-62) which conducted the tellurometer surveys. 227:. The highest points on the main ridge are about 2,050 metres (6,730 ft). The individual ridges are 1 to 2 miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) long and project northward from the higher main ridge. They were mapped by the 434: 286:. A nearly ice-free ridge in Antarctica, 2 nautical miles (4 km) long and rising to over 1,800 metres (5,900 ft). It extends north from the central part of the Finger Ridges, toward 203:) are several mainly ice-free ridges and spurs extending over a distance of about 12 miles (20 km), east–west, in the northwestern part of the 69: 461: 475: 438: 121: 232: 466: 30: 471: 315: 228: 258: 175: 498: 114: 62: 298: 291: 243: 445: 8: 302: 294: 231:
from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959–63, and named descriptively by the
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The Finger Ridges are in the northwest of the Cook Mountains, to the east of
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Western Cook Mountains. Finger Ridges to the north.
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ins is located in Antarctica
Coordinates
79°11′S 157°0′E / 79.183°S 157.000°E / -79.183; 157.000
Range coordinates
79°25′S 158°00′E / 79.417°S 158.000°E / -79.417; 158.000
Parent range
Cook Mountains
79°11′S 157°0′E / 79.183°S 157.000°E / -79.183; 157.000
Cook Mountains
Butcher Ridge
Harvey Peak
Henry Mesa
United States Geological Survey
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

79°9′S 156°57′E / 79.150°S 156.950°E / -79.150; 156.950
Yamagata Ridge
University of Chicago
Yerkes Observatory
Williams Bay, Wisconsin
South Pole Station
79°05′S 157°30′E / 79.083°S 157.500°E / -79.083; 157.500
Carlyon Glacier USGS
Alberts 1995
Harper Ridge USGS
Alberts 1995
Geographic Names of the Antarctic
public domain material
United States Board on Geographic Names
Carlyon Glacier

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