Hughes Ridge
| Hughes Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 21 ′ S , 167 ° 41 ′ E | |
Hughes Ridge is a northeast-southwest trending and 5.5 km long mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Cartographers Range of the Victory Mountains, it rises up to 2,420 m high on the eastern flank of the Lawson Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2009 after Dwight Sturtevant Hughes, senior software developer and team leader of the Geographic Names Information System from 1993 to 2009.
Web links
- Hughes Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hughes Ridge on geographic.org (English)