Fisher Ridge
| Fisher Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 58 ′ S , 169 ° 0 ′ E | |
Fischer Ridge is an icy mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains , it extends in a northwest-southeast orientation between the Kirk and Ironside Glaciers .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the ridge based on its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the American atmospheric chemist William H. Fischer, who from 1966 until 1967 worked at McMurdo Station .
Web links
- Fischer Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fischer Ridge on geographic.org (English)