USACE Landmarks – Antarctica Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory Source: U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey | http://geonames.usgs.gov/antarctic/ CEERD-PA/ba, June 17 Abele Spur Kovacs Glacier ID# 17; Ridge; 831300S | 0510500W; Decision Year – not indicated ID# 8182; Glacier; 831100S | 0491500W; Decision Year – not indicated A rock spur that descends W from Mount Lechner toward Herring Nunataks in Glacier on the SE side of Lexington Table, flowing ENE into Support Force the Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains. Named for CRREL civil engineer Glacier in the Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains (q.v.). Named in 1979 Gunars Abele to recognize his efforts during the 1973-74 USARP-CRREL after CRREL research civil engineer Austin Kovacs, leader of the 1973-74 survey in this area. USARP-CRREL survey party in this area who also worked in the McMurdo Sound area. Ackley Point ID# 17834; Cape; 774722S | 1665513E; Decision Year – 2000 Mount Langway An ice-covered point 1 mile SE of Cone Hill on the E side of Hut Point ID# 8482; Summit; 752900S | 1394700W; Decision Year – 1970 Peninsula, Ross Island. Named for CRREL sea ice specialist Stephen F. A coastal mountain (760 m) located 2.5 mi SW of Mount LeMasurier in the Ackley, Ph.D., who worked with the USAP in McMurdo Sound and diverse Ickes Mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Named for CRREL geologist, Chester parts of the Southern Ocean for more than 25 years, dating from the 1976-77 C. Langway, Ph.D., for his efforts with the USARP at Byrd Station, 1968-69. austral season. Mellor Glacier Albert Valley ID# 9835; Glacier; 733000S | 0663000E; Decision Year – 1961 ID# 18722; Valley; 772238S | 1605515E; Decision Year – 2005 Tributary glacier, flowing NNE between Mounts Newton and Maguire and A hanging valley between Conway Peak and Wendler Spur in central coalescing with Collins Glacier just prior to junction with Lambert Glacier at Apocalypse Peaks, Victoria Land. Named for CRREL research mechanical Patrick Point, in the Prince Charles Mountains. Named for English-born engineer Mary R. Albert, Ph.D., who conducted field and laboratory research glaciologist and CRREL engineer Malcolm Mellor, Ph.D., for his work at to characterize ice core, firn, and snow properties from Siple Dome, from the Mawson Station, 1957. US-ITASE traverses of West Antarctica, and from East Antarctic megadunes, 1996-2003. Ramseier Glacier Mount Anderson ID# 12340; Glacier; 803000S | 1561800E; Decision Year – 1965 Steep cirque-type glacier, 5 mi long, flowing SW to enter Byrd Glacier ID# 404; Summit; 780900S | 0861300W; Decision Year – 1960 immediately E of Mount Rummage. Named for CRREL research physicist, Mountain (4,255 m) located 2 mi S of Mount Bentley in the main ridge of the René O. Ramseier, at McMurdo and South Pole Stations, 1960-61 and 1961- Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by the, under C.R. Bentley, 62 seasons. and named for SIPRE glaciologist Vernon H. Anderson, to recognize his efforts at Byrd Station as a member of the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party, 1957-58. Rand Peak ID# 18048; Summit; 800600S | 1593000E; Decision Year – 2000 A prominent peak (1510 m) in the S part of Nebraska Peaks, Britannia Range. Mount Arcone Named after CRREL general engineer John H. Rand, who drilled ice core at ID# 18247; Summit; 814300S | 1610200E; Decision Year – 2003 site J-9 during the Ross Ice Shelf Project, austral summers 1974-75 and 1976- A horseshoe-shaped mountain rising to 1350 m in Nash Range, Churchill 77. Mountains. Named for CRREL geophysicist Steven A. Arcone, Ph.D., who conducted ground radar traverses and airborne radar surveys in the South Pole area, Transantarctic Mountains, and ice sheet of West Antarctica during Mount Sletten six field seasons, 1993-2002. ID# 14020; Summit; 854700S | 1533000W; Decision Year – 1967 A conspicuous rock peak surmounting Taylor Ridge on the W side of Scott Glacier, 4 mi NE of Mount Pulitzer. Named for CRREL environmental Bader Glacier engineer Robert S. Sletten who made studies in satellite geodesy at ID# 824; Glacier; 673700S | 0664500W; Decision Year – 1960 McMurdo Station in 1965. Small glacier flowing to Bourgeois Fjord just S of Thomson Head, on the W coast of Graham Land. Named for Swiss glaciologist Henri Bader. Bader was the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment’s (SIPRE) Thuronyi Bluff Chief Scientist. (SIPRE was merged into CRREL) ID# 15278; Cliff; 664800S | 0644500W; Decision Year – not indicated A prominent bluff at the head of Mill Inlet between Balch Glacier and Gould Glacier, on the Foyn Coast, Graham Land. Named after ‘Bibliography on Mount Ballard Cold Regions Science and Technology’ editor Geza T. Thuronyi, Antarctic ID# 911; Summit; 751200S | 0700500W; Decision Year – 1968 bibliographer, U.S. Library of Congress, 1967-90; Head, Cold Regions Mountain in the W part of the Sweeney Mountains in Ellsworth Land. Named Bibliography Project and Editor, volumes 3-18, Antarctic Bibliography, compiled for CRREL equipment operator G.E. Ballard, with the South Pole Station in the Science and Technology Division of the U.S. Library of Congress. winter party in 1963. Ueda Glacier Benson Ridge ID# 15741; Glacier; 751500S | 0643500W; Decision Year – 1968 ID# 1247; Ridge; 824600S | 1644800E; Decision Year – 1966 A large glacier flowing eastward along the S side of the Scaife Mountains to Rugged ridge between Robb and Bondeson Glaciers, standing 5 mi W of the enter Hansen Inlet near the base of Antarctic Peninsula. Named for CRREL N end of the Holland Range. Named for SIPRE glaciologist Carl S. Benson, mechanical engineer Herbert T. Ueda who, with B. Lyle Hansen, was in Ph.D., who worked with the USARP at Roosevelt Island, 1961-62. charge of the deep core drilling program at Byrd Station, summers 1966-67 and 1967-68. Den Hartog Peak Weertman Island ID# 3731; Summit; 842000S | 1785200E; Decision Year – 1962 ID# 16384; Island; 665800S | 0674400W; Decision Year – 1965 A small peak at the W side of the mouth of Ramsey Glacier, 3 mi SE of Garfield Glacier Jezek Glacier Woodall Peak. Named for CRREL geologist Stephen Den Hartog, who was Hansen Inlet The largest and southernmost of the Bennett Islands, lying in Hanusse Bay. glaciologist on the Victoria Land Traverse Party (1958-59), and wintered at ID# 5490; Glacier; 745700S | 1363500W; Decision Year – 1974 ID# 6334; Stream; 751500S | 0634000W; Decision Year – 1968 ID# 7549; Glacier; 775854S | 1621313E; Decision Year – 1992 Named for CRREL geophysicist Johannes Weertman, Ph.D., American metallurgist who proposed a theory of slip of glaciers on their beds and has Little America V, 1958. A glacier, 6 mi long, flowing between Peden Cliffs and Cox Point to the E side Ice-filled inlet between Capes Schlossbach and Cox, along the E coast and A glacier on the SE side of Platform Spur, flowing NE into Emmanuel Glacier in made important contributions to the theory of glacier flow. of Hull Bay on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. Named for CRREL research near the base of Antarctic Peninsula. Named for CRREL research physical the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Named after CRREL geophysicist mechanical engineer Donald E. Garfield, who participated in deep core scientist B. Lyle Hansen who, with Herbert T. Ueda, was in charge of the Kenneth C. Jezek, who in 12 visits to the Arctic and Antarctic, conducted Erlanger Spur drilling activities at Byrd Station, 1967-68. deep-core drilling program at Byrd Station for several seasons, 1966-69. geophysical surveys using remote sensing techniques on measurement and ID# 4572; Ridge; 831600S | 0510600W; Decision Year – not indicated properties of terrestrial ice and sea ice with work at Dome Charlie, Ross Ice Shelf and Weddell Sea; Director, Byrd Polar Research Center, from 1989. A rock spur from the SW extremity of Lexington Table, Forrestal Range, in the Mount Gow Pensacola Mountains. Named after CRREL electronics specialist George L. Hendrickson Peak Erlanger, with Geophysical Survey Systems Inc., who worked with the ID# 5904; Summit; 712000S | 1624000E; Decision Year – 1964 ID# 6644; Summit; 855600S | 1324900W; Decision Year – 1967 Kalafut Nunatak USARP-CRREL survey in the Pensacola Mountains, 1973-74. Mountain, 1,770 m, on the E side of Rennick Glacier in the Bowers Mountains. It marks the W end of the rugged heights between the mouths of Carryer and A rock peak rising over 2,000 m at the W side of Reedy Glacier, standing 2 mi ID# 7728; Summit; 774600S | 1453600W; Decision Year – 1970 Sledgers Glaciers where these two tributaries enter Rennick Glacier. Named W of May Peak in the Quartz Hills. Named for CRREL glaciologist George A nunatak which marks the SE end of the Haines Mountains, in the Ford for CRREL geologist Anthony J. Gow, Ph.D., who carried on research at the Hendrickson, to recognize his efforts at Byrd Station, 1962-63 and 1963-64. Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. Named for CRREL electronics engineer John Byrd, South Pole, and McMurdo Stations nearly every summer season from Kalafut, for his efforts with the USARP at Byrd Station in the 1966-67 and 1959 to 1969. 1968-69 seasons..