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Feature Name (see definition): Hughes Ridge Feature Class (see definition): Ridge Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica) Feature ID (see definition): 19268 Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 72° 21' 20" S Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 167° 41' 11" E Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -72.3555556 Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 167.6863889 Elevation (see definition): 2420 Decision Year (see definition): 10/20/2009 Description (see definition): A ridge, 3.5 miles long, running northeast-southwest and rising to 2420 meters on the east side of Lawson Glacier in Cartographers Range, Victoria Land. Named by US-ACAN (2009) after Dwight Sturtevant Hughes, Senior Software Engineer and Technical Team Leader in support of U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System, 1993-2009; responsible for complete redesign and reprogramming of GNIS and integration with geospatial information technology, 1997, allowing efficient maintenance, public access and display of the Antarctic name database through the Internet. Date Created (see definition): 03/05/2010 Date Edited (see definition): No data NOTE: The information regarding Hughes Ridge in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Hughes Ridge information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Hughes Ridge should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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