Andrews Ridge
| Andrews Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Taylor Valley in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 39 ′ S , 162 ° 50 ′ E | |
Andrews Ridge is a gentle mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises up as the northern arm of the walnut bar with an eastern extension south of the Suess glacier and Lake Chad in the Taylor Valley .
The British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), participant of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , named the ridge after the Australian geologist Ernest Clayton Andrews (1870-1948).
Web links
- Andrews Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Andrews Ridge on geographic.org (English)