King Ridge
| King Ridge | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 38 ′ S , 63 ° 56 ′ W | |
King Ridge is a narrow, 5 km long and up to 990 m high mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the central Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it extends 3 km southwest of the Wrigley Bluffs in the Anderson Hills .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 at the suggestion of the American polar explorer Finn Ronne after Joseph Caldwell King (1900–1977) of the Central Intelligence Agency , which was instrumental in soliciting government support for the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948).
Web links
- King Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- King Ridge on geographic.org (English)