Kavrayskiy Hills
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Kavrayskiy Hills is a line of mostly ice-covered coastal hills rising south of Rennick Bay
and along the west side of the lower end of Rennick Glacier
. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition
(1958) and named after Vladimir V. Kavrayskiy
, Soviet geodesist and cartographer (1884–1954).
Rennick Bay
Rennick Bay is an embayment of the coastline at the terminus of Rennick Glacier. It is bounded on the west and east by Belousov Point and Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont. The eastern part of the bay was discovered from the ship Terra Nova, of the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott. Named by the...
and along the west side of the lower end of Rennick Glacier
Rennick Glacier
Rennick Glacier is broad glacier, nearly 200 miles long, which is one of the largest in Antarctica. It rises on the polar plateau westward of Mesa Range and is 20 to 30 miles wide, narrowing to 10 miles near the coast. It takes its name from Rennick Bay where the glacier reaches the sea. The...
. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR....
(1958) and named after Vladimir V. Kavrayskiy
Vladimir V. Kavrayskiy
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kavrayskiy was a Soviet geodesist and cartographer.- Scientific research :In 1939, Vladimir V. Kavrayskiy invented the Kavrayskiy VII projection....
, Soviet geodesist and cartographer (1884–1954).