Holmes Ridge

This article describes the mountain ridge in Antarctica. For the ridge of the same name on the island of Heard in the southern Indian Ocean, see Holmes Ridge (Heard) .

Holmes Ridge
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
part of	Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 10 ′  S , 156 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 79 ° 10 ′  S , 156 ° 42 ′  E

Holmes Ridge is a 3 km long and rocky mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is the largest formation in the western part of the Finger Ridges in the Cook Mountains .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2001 after Robert E. Holmes of the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , who was involved in the construction and operation of automatic weather stations in Antarctica from 1991 to 1997 .

Web links

• Holmes Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Holmes Ridge on geographic.org (English)