Greene Ridge
| Greene Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Miller Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 12 ′ S , 157 ° 10 ′ E | |
 Topographic map with Greene Ridge in the Miller Range (top left) |
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Greene Ridge is a partially icy and 8 km long mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Miller Range it extends from the Martin Dome in a northerly direction to the southern edge of the Argosy Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the American ionospheric researcher Charles R. Greene Jr., who worked for the United States Antarctic Research Program in 1958 at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Greene Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Greene Ridge on geographic.org (English).