MacAlpine Hills
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MacAlpine Hills is a chain of mainly ice-free, bluff-type hills extending from Mount Achernar
southwest along the south side of Law Glacier
, to Sylwester Glacier
. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(US-ACAN) for Ens. Kenneth D. MacAlpine, USNR. A member of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6
, MacAlpine
was injured in an airplane crash at McMurdo Sound
, October 1956.
Mount Achernar
Mount Achernar is a peak forming the northeast end of the MacAlpine Hills, on the south side of Law Glacier. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition after the star Achernar used in fixing the survey baseline....
southwest along the south side of Law Glacier
Law Glacier
Law Glacier is a glacier about 10 in. wide between the south end of Queen Elizabeth Range and the MacAlpine Hills, gradually descending east-northeast from the polar plateau to Bowden Neve. It was named by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition for B.R. Law, a...
, to Sylwester Glacier
Sylwester Glacier
Sylwester Glacier is a glacier, 5 miles long, flowing north between Jacobs Nunatak and MacAlpine Hills into Law Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for David L. Sylwester, United States Antarctic Research Program aurora scientist at South Pole Station, winter 1961, and Byrd...
. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...
(US-ACAN) for Ens. Kenneth D. MacAlpine, USNR. A member of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6
VX-6
Air Development Squadron Six was a United States Navy Air Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica...
, MacAlpine
MacAlpine
MacAlpine, is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States. It was built by wealthy Baltimore attorney, James Mackubin, for his second wife, Gabriella Peter, a great-great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. She grew up at nearby Linwood, the daughter of Maj...
was injured in an airplane crash at McMurdo Sound
McMurdo Sound
The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km long and wide. The sound opens into the Ross Sea to the north. The Royal Society Range rises from sea level to 13,205 feet on the western shoreline. The nearby McMurdo Ice Shelf scribes McMurdo Sound's southern boundary...
, October 1956.