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195: 28: 35: 532: 464: 262:. Named by US-ACAN after Arthur B. Ford of the USGS, Menlo Park, CA, geologist and co-leader (with Peter F. Bermel) of the USGS party in the Thiel Mountains, 1960-61 (leader 1961-62); field work at Lassiter Coast, 1970-71; leader of geological parties to the Pensacola Mountains in 1965-66, 1973-74, 1976-77, and 1978-79. 338:. Two small isolated rocks in the west part of Sallee Snowfield, about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) east of central Dufek Massif. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. The name applied by US-ACAN is descriptive of their small size. 300:. A small cliff-type glacier draining northward into Davis Valley. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Joseph L. Edge, photographer with United States Navy Squadron VX-6 on Operation Deep Freeze 1963 and 1964. 202:
The Sallee Snowfield is between the Dufek Massif to the northwest and the Forrestal Range to the southeast. In the north it descends to the Ford Ice Piedmont. The Petite Rocks are in the east of the snowfield. A glacier drains north from the snowfield past the
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in the northeastern Dufek Massif to the Ford Ice Piedmont. The Edge Glacier extends from the snowfield into the Davis Valley for about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi). Rocks of the
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are visible in the Dufuk Massif and the Forrestal Range, and are thought to be connected below the Sallee Snowfield.
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Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No. 119
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Map showing the location of
Queen Elizabeth Land
Coordinates
82°37′S 50°20′W / 82.617°S 50.333°W / -82.617; -50.333 (Sallee Snowfield)
82°37′S 50°20′W / 82.617°S 50.333°W / -82.617; -50.333 (Sallee Snowfield)
Dufek Massif
Forrestal Range
Pensacola Mountains
United States Geological Survey
United States Navy
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Ralph W. Sallee

Davis Valley
Dufek Intrusion
82°10′S 50°00′W / 82.167°S 50.000°W / -82.167; -50.000
Foundation Ice Stream
Support Force Glacier
82°29′S 51°07′W / 82.483°S 51.117°W / -82.483; -51.117
82°40′S 51°30′W / 82.667°S 51.500°W / -82.667; -51.500


Alberts 1995
Davis Valley USGS
Management Plan ASPA 119
Ford 1976
Alberts 1995
Alberts 1995
Alberts 1995
Geographic Names of the Antarctic

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