Flint Ridge
| Flint Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Flint Hill ( 995 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Asgard Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 31 ′ S , 163 ° 2 ′ E | |
Flint Ridge is an up to 995 m high and north-south oriented mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it rises just north of the Commonwealth Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1973 after Lawrence A. Flint, who in 1972 was the manager of the Berg Field Center for geological research at McMurdo Station as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Flint Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flint Ridge on geographic.org (English)