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LeMay Range
The
LeMay Range
is a mountain range long with peaks rising to , extending in a northwest–southeast direction from
Snick Pass
to the north side of
Uranus Glacier
in the central portion of
Alexander Island
,
Antarctica
. It was first seen from the air by
Lincoln Ellsworth
on November 23, 1935, and the north and east portions mapped from photos obtained on that flight by
W.L.G. Joerg
. Later, it was resighted from the air by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
(RARE), 1947–48, and named by
Finn Ronne
for General
Curtis LeMay
, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development of the then
United States Army Air Forces
, which furnished equipment for the expedition. The range was remapped in detail from RARE photos by D. Searle of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
in 1960.
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