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Raymond Ice Ridge

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Raymond Ice Ridge (81°35′S 135°0′W) is an ice ridge between Bindschadler Ice Stream and Kamb Ice Stream on Siple Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Siple Dome is at the west end of the ridge. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Raymond, Geophysics Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, who studied the glacial history and evolution of the Marie Byrd Land ice stream system, with work on Siple Dome and the adjacent Bindschadler and Kamb Ice Streams in several field seasons, 1994-2002.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Raymond Ice Ridge" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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