Hurricane Ridge
| Hurricane Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 24 ' S , 164 ° 12' E | |
Hurricane Ridge is the easternmost of two sweeping and largely ice-free mountain ridges that extend northward from Mount Morning on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land. The other is the Riviera Ridge . At the northern end of this ridge are Gandalf Ridge and Lake Discovery .
It was named at the suggestion of the New Zealand geologist Anne C. Wright, who carried out explorations here between 1985 and 1986 as part of a team from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and had to be rescued by helicopter as a result of a heavy storm.
Web links
- Hurricane Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hurricane Ridge on geographic.org (English)