MacQuarrie Edge (80°32′S 30°3′W / 80.533°S 30.050°W) is a rock scarp rising to about 760 metres (2,500 ft) in the northern part of the Otter Highlands, in the western Shackleton Range, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Alister S. MacQuarrie (1935–1970), a British Antarctic Survey tractor mechanic at Halley Station, 1968–69, who worked in the Shackleton Range.[1]
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edit- ^ "MacQuarrie Edge". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
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