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==Named features== {{geoGroup}} [[File:C76114s1 Ant.Map Crary Mountains.jpg|thumb|Crary Mountains in southwest of map]] Named features, from northwest to southeast, include Trabucco Cliff, Mount Rees, Tasch Peak, White Valley, Mount Steere, Lie Cliff, Mount Frakes, English Rock, Morrison Rocks, Campbell Valley, Boyd Ridge and Runyon Rock.{{sfn|Crary Mountains USGS}} The features were all mapped by the [[United States Geological Survey]] (USGS) from surveys and [[United States Navy]] aerial photography in 1959β66.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=86ff|loc=Boyd Ridge}} <!-- The level 3 headers in the list that follows are the targets of redirects, as #redirect [[Crary Mountains#Trabucco Cliff]]. The list could be converted to a more compact format, but please preserve the targets as, e.g. {{anchor|Trabucco Cliff}} --> ===Trabucco Cliff=== {{coord|76|37|S|118|01|W}}. A cliff at the tip of the broad spur which forms the northeast extremity of Mount Rees. Named by the United States [[Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names]] (US-ACAN) for William J. Trabucco, [[United States Antarctic Research Program]] (USARP) ionospheric physicist at [[McMurdo Station]], 1969, and [[Siple Station]], 1973.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=755}} ===Mount Rees=== {{main|Mount Rees (Marie Byrd Land)}} {{coord|76|40|S|118|10|W}}. Mountain located {{convert|7|nmi}} northwest of Mount Steere in the north end of Crary Mountains. Named by US-ACAN for Manfred H. Rees, aurora scientist at Byrd Station, 1965β66 season.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=609}} ===Tasch Peak=== {{coord|76|40|S|118|03|W}}. A rocky peak in the southeast portion of Mount Rees. Named by US-ACAN for Paul Tasch, USARP geologist in the Sentinel Range and Ohio Range, summer 1966β67, and Coalsack Bluff, 1969β70.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=733}} ===White Valley=== {{coord|76|39|S|117|57|W}}. A broad ice-covered valley that indents the northern part of Crary Mountains between Trabucco Cliff and Lie Cliff. Named by US-ACAN for Franklin E. White, USARP ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station in four summer seasons, 1966β71.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=810}} ===Mount Steere=== {{coord|76|44|S|117|49|W}}. Prominent mountain {{convert|3,500|m}} high standing {{convert|4|nmi}} north-northwest of Mount Frakes. Named by US-ACAN for William C. Steere, biologist at McMurdo Station, 1964β65 season.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=710}} ===Lie Cliff=== {{coord|76|42|S|117|37|W}}. A prominent rock cliff at the eastern foot of Mount Steere. Named by US-ACAN for Hans P. Lie, USARP ionospheric physicist at Siple Station in the 1970β71 and 1973-74 summer seasons.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=432}} ===Mount Frakes=== {{coord|76|48|S|117|42|W}}. A prominent mountain {{convert|3,675|m}} high marking the highest elevation in the Crary Mountains. Named by US-AC AN for Lawrence A. Frakes, USARP geologist who worked three summer seasons in the Falkland Islands and Antarctica, 1964-65 through 1967β68.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=256}} ===English Rock=== {{coord|76|49|S|118|00|W}}. A rock outcrop near the foot of the western slope of Mount Frakes. Named by US-ACAN for Claude L. English Jr., United States Navy, helicopter crewman with Squadron VXE-6 during Deep Freeze 1970; he also deployed with the Squadron during Deep Freeze 1961, 1962 and 1965.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=222}} ===Morrison Rocks=== {{coord|76|51|S|117|39|W}}. A group of rocks which outcrop along the southern slope of Mount Frakes. Named by US-ACAN for Paul W. Morrison, United States Navy, hospital corpsman at the South Pole Station in 1974.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=506}} ===Campbell Valley=== {{coord|76|55|S|117|40|W}}. An ice-filled valley, or pass, extending eastβwest between the main group of peaks of the Crary Mountains and Boyd Ridge. Named by US-ACAN for Wallace H. Campbell, ionospheric physicist at McMurdo Station in the 1964β65 season; Macquarie Island, 1961β62.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=115}} ===Boyd Ridge=== {{coord|76|57|S|116|57|W}}. An ice-covered ridge, {{convert|22|nmi}} long, which extends in an eastβwest direction and forms the south end of the Crary Mountains. It is separated from the main peaks of the group by Campbell Valley. Named by US-ACAN for John C. Boyd, USARP biologist at McMurdo Station, 1965β66 and 1966β67 seasons.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=86}} ===Runyon Rock=== {{coord|76|56|S|116|33|W}}. A prominent rock along the northern side of Boyd Ridge. Named by US-ACAN for William E. Runyon, United States Navy, construction electrician at the South Pole Station in 1969 and 1974.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=637}}
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