Luncke Ridge
| Luncke Ridge | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Vestfold Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Luncke Ridge is a striking mountain ridge on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In the Vestfold Mountains it rises on the north side of the eastern foothills of the Langnes Fjord .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . In 1957, a team on the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions sighted the ridge and named it after the Norwegian cartographer Bernhard Luncke (1894–1963), who was instrumental in mapping the Vestfold Mountains for the Atlas over dele av det Antarctic kystland from 1946 was involved.
Web links
- Luncke Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Luncke Ridge on geographic.org (English)