Chapman Ridge
| Chapman Ridge | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 28 ′ S , 60 ° 58 ′ E | |
Chapman Ridge is a 300 m high mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It extends from Byrd Head for a length of 3 miles to the southwest.
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him. Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him on July 22, 1959 after the later Australian-American astronaut Phillip Kenyon Chapman (* 1935), who worked as an ionospheric physicist at Mawson Station in 1958 .
Web links
- Chapman Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chapman Ridge on geographic.org (English)