Glacier Ridge
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Glacier Ridge is a mountain range between 600 and 2200 m high, 7 km long and 1.3 km wide with a north-south orientation on the Antarctic Ross Island . The ridge is completely glaciated and ends on the southern slope of Mount Erebus 3.4 km northwest of Tyree Head .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1999 after the icebreaker USS Glacier , which was involved in numerous scientific missions in Antarctica between 1955 and 1987.
Web links
- Glacier Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Glacier Ridge on geographic.org (English)