Hoffman Ledge
| Hoffman Ledge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Wright Valley in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
The Hoffman Ledge is a flattened mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . With a length of 3 km and a width of 0.8 km it rises west of the Dais Col from the plateau labyrinth in the Wright Valley . The relatively flat ridge reaches an altitude of 1000 m to the west and north of the Healy Trough . Cliffs and slopes at the edge of the ridge rise 50 to 100 m from the Healy Trough.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after Jack Edward Hoffman (1923-1996), who was in charge of New Zealand's drilling project in the Antarctic Dry Valleys from 1973 to 1976 .
Web links
- Hoffman Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hoffman Ledge on geographic.org (English)