DeZafra Ridge
| DeZafra Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 17 ′ S , 157 ° 27 ′ E | |
DeZafra Ridge is a narrow yet distinctive mountain ridge 8 km in length in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains, it rises 350 m above the surrounding ice 4 km west of Fault Bluff from the northeast cliffs of the Longhurst Plateau in a northerly direction.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2001 after the American physicist Robert L. DeZafra (* 1932) from Stony Brook University , whose research at the geographic South Pole and McMurdo Sound made decisive contributions to the understanding of the ozone hole .
Web links
- DeZafra Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- DeZafra Ridge on geographic.org (English)