Ghent Ridge
| Ghent Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 34 ′ S , 163 ° 7 ′ E | |
Ghent Ridge is a mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the lower section of the Taylor Valley , it runs 800 m north of Mount Falconer parallel to the Commonwealth Glacier .
Participants in a campaign by New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions that lasted from 1965 to 1966 named it Smith Ridge , presumably after the geologist Ian Smith, who took part in this campaign. Since a corresponding toponym was already taken, the ridge was renamed after Edward D. Ghent, the head of this campaign and later professor of geology at the University of Calgary .
Web links
- Ghent Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ghent Ridge on geographic.org (English)