McCafferty Spur

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McCafferty Spur (79°17′S 156°4′E / 79.283°S 156.067°E / -79.283; 156.067Coordinates: 79°17′S 156°4′E / 79.283°S 156.067°E / -79.283; 156.067) is a spur on the north face of Butcher Ridge, in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica, 5.5 nautical miles (10 km) northwest of Mount Ayres. It was named after Anne McCafferty, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), who in 1991–92 worked on a USGS aeromagnetic survey over the Ross Ice Shelf and, in a cooperative USGS–German project, participated in the first aeromagnetic flight across the Butcher Ridge and Cook Mountains.[1]

References

  1. ^ "McCafferty Spur". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-09-02.

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