Harper Ridge
| Harper Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 9 ′ S , 156 ° 57 ′ E | |
Harper Ridge is a nearly ice-free, 3 km long and over 1800 m high mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains , it extends from the central section of the Finger Ridges north to the Yamagata Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2001 after Doyal A. Harper from the Yerkes Observatory , from 1991 head of astrophysical investigations in Antarctica for several years at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Harper Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harper Ridge on geographic.org (English)