Lubbock Ridge
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 52 ′ S , 175 ° 25 ′ W | |
 1965 map, Lubbock Ridge to the south of the map west of center |
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Lubbock Ridge is a 8 km long and towering mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it extends west of Mount Wade and ends on the eastern flank of the Shackleton Glacier in the form of a steep cliff .
The American geologist Franklin Alton Wade (1903-1978), head of a team at Texas Tech University to explore the Shackleton Glacier between 1962 and 1963, named the massif after the Texas city of Lubbock , the seat of the university.
Web links
- Lubbock Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lubbock Ridge on geographic.org (English)