Copperstain Ridge
| Copperstain Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 27 ′ S , 164 ° 22 ′ E | |
Copperstain Ridge is a 5 km long ridge in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Bowers Mountains it extends north-northeast of Mount Freed .
Participants of a campaign carried out from 1967 to 1968 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the copper veins ( English copperstain ) that they found in the rock.
Web links
- Copperstain Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Copperstain Ridge on geographic.org (English)