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Nye Mountains
Nye
Mountains
is a group of
mountains
,
30
nautical miles
long
and 10
to
15
nautical
miles
wide
, which
trend
eastward from the
head
of
Rayner Glacier
. They were sighted by
Squadron Leader
D.
Leckie
, RAAF, during an
ANARE
flight
in
October 1956
. Named by
Antarctic Names Committee of Australia
for P.B. Nye, former Director of the
Bureau of Mineral Resources
,
Australian Department of National Development
.