Dalziel Ridge
| Columbia Mountains | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Columbia Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 12 ′ S , 63 ° 52 ′ W | |
Dalziel Ridge is the main western ridge of the Columbia Mountains in Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula .
The United States Geological Survey mapped him in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after the British geologist Ian William Drummond Dalziel (* 1937) of Columbia University who served several times in the late 1960s and 1970s as a senior scientist of the United States Antarctic Research Program , the area around the island arc Scotia Ridge in the Scotia Sea was investigated.
Web links
- Dalziel Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dalziel Ridge on geographic.org (English)