McKinley Peak
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McKinley Peak is a peak
standing 15 nautical miles (28 km) 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 third-in-command of the expedition.
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
standing 15 nautical miles (28 km) west of Hershey Ridge
Hershey Ridge
Hershey Ridge is a low, ice-covered ridge trending in a NW-SE direction for about 30 miles between McKinley Peak and the Haines Mountains, in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. Discovered in 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and named for Garland Hershey, Asst...
at the south end of 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...
in 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 on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition flight of December 5, 1929, and named by Byrd for Grace McKinley, wife of Captain Ashley C. McKinley
Ashley C. McKinley
Ashley Chadbourne McKinley was an accomplished American aerial photographer and Colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps who helped pioneer aviation at subzero temperatures. He accompanied Richard E. Byrd as an aerial photographer on his expedition to the South Pole.He joined the Missouri National Guard...
, aerial photographer and third-in-command of the expedition.