Engelhardt Ice Ridge
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 146 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Engelhardt Ice Ridge is an ice dome in the shape of a mountain ridge in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It looms between the Whillans and Kamb ice streams near the border between the Gould and Siple coasts .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after the US geophysicist Hermann Engelhardt of the California Institute of Technology , who was involved in four campaigns in drilling projects of the United States Antarctic Program in the Whillans and Kamb Ice Streams between 1991 and 1996 .
Web links
- Engelhardt Ice Ridge in Names Geographic Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Engelhardt Ice Ridge on geographic.org (English)