Highway Ridge
| Highway Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Highway Ridge (English for Schnellstraßengrat ) is a mountain ridge in the Royal Society Range of the Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends from Shark Fin Glacier in an easterly direction to the Foster Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1994. It is named after the fact that the ridge offers good access from the lower section of the Foster Glacier to the Shark Fin Glacier.
Web links
- Highway Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Highway Ridge on geographic.org (English)