Kennedy Ridge
| Kennedy Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 24 ′ S , 162 ° 8 ′ E | |
Kennedy Ridge is a 6 km long, icy and strikingly straight mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range , it extends from Mount Moxley in a westerly direction between the Potter and Werdennam glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after Nadene G. Kennedy, coordinator in the National Science Foundation's division for polar programs .
Web links
- Kennedy Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kennedy Ridge on geographic.org (English)