Gaylord Ridge
| Gaylord Ridge | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 2 ′ S , 159 ° 16 ′ E | |
Gaylord Ridge is an isolated mountain ridge in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the western section of the Nebraska Peaks in the Britannia Range, it rises 5 km northwest of Eilers Peak in a north-south orientation.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after the glaciologist David R. Gaylord of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , who was involved in the Ross Ice Shelf Project of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1973 to 1974 .
Web links
- Gaylord Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gaylord Ridge on geographic.org (English)