Eastwind Ridge
| Eastwind Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 36 ′ S , 160 ° 47 ′ E | |
Eastwind Ridge is a wide, partly icy mountain range 16 km in length in the Convoy Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between the Chattahoochee Glacier and the Towle Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountain range using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs from the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after the USCGC Eastwind , an icebreaker of the US associations used in McMurdo Sound from 1958 .
Web links
- East Wind Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eastwind Ridge on geographic.org (English)