Coarse Ridge
| Coarse Ridge | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 28 ′ S , 51 ° 21 ′ W | |
Grob Ridge is a 5 km long and 1,450 m high mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . At the southern end of the Forrestal Range in the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 5 km south of Dyrdal Peak .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Richard W. Grob, cook at Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter of 1957.
Web links
- Coarse Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grob Ridge on geographic.org (English)