Kuivinen Ridge
| Kuivinen Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Lanyon Peak ( 1750 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 14 ′ 15 ″ S , 161 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Kuivinen Ridge is a south-west-north-east oriented mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range it looms between an as yet unnamed glacier and the Ringer Glacier . Highest point is 1750 m of Lanyon peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the ridge in 2005 after ice core specialist Karl C. Kuivinen from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , who between 1968 and 2000 often held a leading position on ice drilling projects in Antarctica and from 1974 to 1999 also on those in Greenland and Alaska was involved.
Web links
- Kuivinen Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kuivinen Ridge on geographic.org (English)