Clark Ridge
| Clark 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 ° 32 '2 " S , 64 ° 46' 48" W | |
Clark Ridge is a striking and 6 km long mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Anderson Hills of the northern Patuxent Range in the Pensacola Mountains it rises 6 km west of Mount Lowry .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Larry Clark, cook at the plateau station in the Antarctic winter of 1967.
Web links
- Clark Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clark Ridge on geographic.org (English)