Geikie Ridge
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 Geikie Ridge (center front) |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 44 ′ S , 169 ° 36 ′ E | |
 The Geikie Ridge between the Dugdale- and Murray Glacier west of Adare Peninsula |
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Geikie Ridge is a massive mountain range in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the watershed between the Dugdale Glacier and the Murray Glacier in the Admiralty Mountains .
It was first mapped by participants in the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) under the direction of the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink . Borchgrevink named the formation originally identified as a plateau as Geikieland after the British geologist Archibald Geikie (1835-1924).
Web links
- Geikie Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Geikie Ridge on geographic.org (English)