Craw Ridge
| Craw Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 0 ′ S , 163 ° 0 ′ E | |
Craw Ridge is a prominent mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends in the Royal Society Range starting from Mount Lister in a northeasterly direction.
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1985 after Dave Craw, a member of the geological team who explored this ridge as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program in the 1980-1981 campaign and reached an altitude of 3700 m .
Web links
- Craw Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Craw Ridge on geographic.org (English)