Station ID: BURI
Coordinate: S 79.1474, E 155.8942
Installed: 2007-2008 season
Former Projects: TAMDEF
Former Names: BUR0
Transportation: Helicopter
Closest operations HUB: 278km to McMurdo Station
A large, mainly ice-free ridge near the polar plateau in the W part of the Cook Mountains. The ridge is in the form of an arc, extending NW from Mount Ayres. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. H.K. Butcher, USN, air operations officer on the Staff of the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, during USN OpDFrz 1963 and 1964 (https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=123143).