Forbes Ridge
| Forbes Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount McClintock ( 3490 m ) | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 9 ′ S , 157 ° 30 ′ E | |
Forbes Ridge is a 11 km long mountain range in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , it extends from Mount McClintock in a northerly direction along the eastern flank of the Hinton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the US geologist Robert B. Forbes of the University of Alaska , participant in two deep freeze operations (1955–1956 and 1962–1963) to explore the region around the McMurdo Sund .
Web links
- Forbes Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Forbes Ridge on geographic.org (English)