Kitching Ridge
| Kitching Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 12 ′ S , 177 ° 6 ′ W | |
Kitching Ridge is a distinctive and rocky ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it extends on the western flank of Shackleton Glacier between Bennett Platform and Matador Mountain .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1971 after the South African vertebrate paleontologist James Kitching (1922-2003), who was the first to discover fossils here between 1970 and 1971 .
Web links
- Kitching Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kitching Ridge on geographic.org (English)