Killer Ridge
| Killer Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 12 ′ S , 162 ° 6 ′ E | |
Killer Ridge is a dark ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Gonville and Caius Range, it rises to heights of up to 1,000 m between the Crisp Glacier and the Miller Glacier .
The ridge was mapped during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after its resemblance to a killer whale .
Web links
- Killer Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Killer Ridge on geographic.org (English)