Conrad Ledge
| Conrad Ledge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Cruzen Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ S , 160 ° 53 ′ E | |
Conrad Ledge is a flattened and 1.5 km long mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Cruzen Range it rises from the high plateau The Fortress between Hilt Cirque and Dana Cirque .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after Lieutenant Commander Lawrence J. Conrad, helicopter pilot of the VXE-6 flight squadron of the United States Navy at McMurdo Station from 1982 to 1985, who worked between 2003 and 2004 on the project to create aerial photographs of well-known geographical areas Objects in the region around the McMurdo Sound was involved.
Web links
- Conrad Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Conrad Ledge on geographic.org (English)