Icenhower Ridge
| Icenhower Ridge | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 13 ′ S , 158 ° 25 ′ E | |
Icenhower Ridge is a 1600 m high, wide and mainly icy mountain range in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , it extends between the Yancey and Sennet glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 based on the naming of the Byrd and Sennet glaciers after Joseph Bryan Icenhower (1913-1994), captain of the USS Sennet , one of the Operation Highjump (1946-1947) the leadership of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd used submarine of the United States Navy .
Web links
- Icenhower Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Icenhower Ridge on geographic.org (English)