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==Western features== [[File:Ohio Range USGS Topographic Map.jpg|thumb|Ohio Range in southeast of map]] ===Eldridge Peak=== {{coord|84|51|S|116|50|W}}. A small, mainly ice-free peak, or nunatak, marking the west extremity of the Ohio Range. Surveyed by the USARP Horlick Mountains Traverse party in Dec. 1958. Named by the United States [[Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names]] (US-ACAN) for Henry M. Eldridge, Antarctic cartographer, Branch of Special Maps, United States Geological Survey.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=216}} ===Vann Peak=== {{coord|84|50|S|116|43|W}}. A small but prominent bare rock peak, {{convert|2,140|m}} high, which is the central and dominant feature of three aligned peaks at the west end of Ohio Range. Surveyed by the USARP Horlick Mountains Traverse party in December 1958. Named by US-ACAN for Charlie E. Vann, chief of the photogrammetry unit responsible for Antarctic maps in the Branch of Special Maps, United States Geological Survey.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=776}} ===Knox Peak=== {{coord|84|49|S|116|39|W}}. A small but distinctive rock peak, or nunatak, located between Vann Peak and Lackey Ridge at the west end of the Ohio Range. Surveyed by the USARP Horlick Mountains Traverse party in Dec. 1958. Named by US-ACAN for Arthur S. Knox, Antarctic cartographer, Branch of Special Maps, United States Geological Survey.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=399}} ===Lackey Ridge=== {{coord|84|49|S|116|15|W}}. An east-west ridge, {{convert|4|nmi}} long, that forms the west end of Buckeye Table in the Ohio Range. Named by US-ACAN for Larry L. Lackey, geologist with the Ohio State University expedition to the Horlick Mountains in 1960-61.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=410}} ===Thumb Promontory=== {{coord|84|48|S|116|18|W}}. A prominent rock spur on the north side of Lackey Ridge, Ohio Range. Thumb Promontory was unofficially named by a NZARP field party to the Ohio Range, 1979-80. The name was formally proposed by geologist Margaret Bradshaw, member of a second NZARP field party, 1983β84. So named because of the similarity of the upper part of this feature to an upturned thumb from certain angles.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=746}} ===Bennett Nunataks=== {{coord|84|47|S|116|25|W}}. Two rock nunataks {{convert|0.5|nmi}} apart, lying {{convert|0.5|nmi}} north of Lackey Ridge. Surveyed by the USARP Horlick Mountains Traverse party in Dec. 1958. Named by US-ACAN for John B. Bennett, geomagnetist-seismologist at Byrd Station, 1960.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=59}} ===Darling Ridge=== {{coord|84|46|S|115|54|W}}. A snow-covered, flat-topped ridge, {{convert|2,350|m}} high, with precipitous rock sides. The ridge is {{convert|2.5|nmi}} long and forms a notable landmark at the northwest corner of Buckeye Table. Surveyed by the USARP Horlick Mountains Traverse party in Dec. 1958. Named by US-ACAN for Fredric L. Darling, glaciological assistant with the party.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=172}} ===Tuning Nunatak=== {{coord|84|44|S|115|58|W}}. A small rock nunatak {{convert|1|nmi}} north of Darling Ridge. Surveyed by the USARP Horlick Mountains Traverse party in Dec. 1958. Named by US-ACAN for Preston O. Tuning, meteorologist at Byrd Station in 1960.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=763}}
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