Maine Ridge
| Maine Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 4 ′ S , 162 ° 6 ′ E | |
Maine Ridge is a mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends in the Royal Society Range with northwest-southeast orientation between the Matataua and Tedrow glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the University of Maine , after the Emmanuel Glacier , the Johns Hopkins Ridge and the Rutgers Glaciers in the area were named after US universities.
Web links
- Maine Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maine Ridge on geographic.org (English).