Clapperton Ridge
| Clapperton Ridge | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 21 ′ S , 65 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Clapperton Ridge is a ridge in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it extends into the Thomas Hills . It is the north of two parallel mountain ridges between Martin Peak and Mount Warnke . The other is the Sugden Ridge .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2010. It was named after the British geomorphologist Chalmers Clapperton (* 1938) from the University of Aberdeen , who worked on the sub-Antarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula from the 1970s to the 1980s .
Web links
- Clapperton Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)