Hershey Ridge is a low, ice-covered ridge trending in a NW-SE direction for about 30 miles (48 km) between McKinley Peak

McKinley Peak

McKinley Peak is a peak standing 15 nautical miles west of Hershey Ridge at the south end of the Ford Ranges in Marie Byrd Land. Discovered on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition flight of December 5, 1929, and named by Byrd for Grace McKinley, wife of Captain Ashley C. McKinley, aerial photographer...

 and the Haines Mountains

Haines Mountains

The Haines Mountains is a range of ice-capped mountains trending NW-SE for about and forming the SW wall of Hammond Glacier, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934, and named for William C. Haines, meteorologist of the Byrd AE ....

, in the Ford Ranges

Ford Ranges

The Ford Ranges is a grouping of mountain ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica...

, Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...

. Discovered in 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and named for Garland Hershey, Asst. State Geologist

Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

 of the Iowa Geological Survey (1939–47) and Director of the Iowa Geological Survey after 1947.