Ranney Nunatak () is a
nunatak in the southwest extremity of
Gutenko Nunataks, in the
Ford Ranges
The Ford Ranges () are a grouping of mountain ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on December 5, 1929, they were named by Byrd ...
of
Marie Byrd Land. It was first mapped by the
United States Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...
(USAS), 1939–41, and named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for
Charles R. Ranney, ionospheric physicist at
Byrd Station, 1969.
Nunataks of Marie Byrd Land
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