Dismal Ridge
| Dismal Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 17 ′ S , 162 ° 48 ′ E | |
Dismal Ridge (English for Trüber Ridge ) is a forked mountain ridge in the Royal Society Range of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends from the saddle between Mount Kempe and Mount Huggins in a north and east direction.
Participants in a campaign from 1960 to 1961 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions made the name. It was named after the weather conditions that the team encountered here in January 1961 and which made it difficult to set up a food depot by helicopter.
Web links
- Dismal Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dismal Ridge on geographic.org (English).