Johnstone Ridge
| Johnstone Ridge | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 8 ′ S , 156 ° 40 ′ E | |
Johnstone Ridge is a mainly ice-free mountain range in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , it extends 11 km north of Mount Olympus to the south side of the Hatherton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after the New Zealander Graeme N. Johnstone, a member of the team at Byrd Station for the exploration of the Northern Lights in the winter of 1962 and at McMurdo Station in the winter of 1964.
Web links
- John Stone Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Johnstone Ridge on geographic.org (English)