Frame Ridge
| Frame Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 5 ′ S , 165 ° 26 ′ E | |
Frame Ridge is a small, straight mountain ridge on the Scott Coast of East Antarctica, Victoria . It rises in the center of the Brown Peninsula just north of a small lake and extends north to Tuff Bluff .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the paleontologist Alec O. Frame, who took part in a joint expedition of the New Zealand Geological Survey and the Victoria University of Wellington as part of Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions to this area from 1964 to 1965 would have.
Web links
- Frame Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Frame Ridge on geographic.org (English)