Claridge Terrace
| Claridge Terrace | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 42 ′ S , 162 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Claridge Terrace is a terrace located in the East Antarctic Victoria Land , an average of 1050 m high . It lies between Mount JJ Thomson and the north face of the Taylor Valley .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1998 after the New Zealand soil scientist Graeme Geoffrey Carré Claridge (* 1931) from the New Zealand Soil Bureau , whose scientific work in Antarctica from 1959 spanned a period of more than 35 years.
Web links
- Claridge Terrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Claridge Terrace on geographic.org