Boyd Escarpment


Boyd Escarpment is a rock and snow escarpment which extends northeast for from Wujek Ridge, in the Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains. It was named in 1979 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Walter W. Boyd, Jr., a U.S. International Geophysical Year glaciologist who wintered at Little America, 1957; geologist, United States Geological Survey, for three summers in the Pensacola Mountains, 1962–66.

Features

Geographical features include: