Marshall Ridge
| Marshall Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Denton Hills | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 3 ' S , 164 ° 5' E | |
Marshall Ridge is a mountain ridge in the Denton Hills on the Scott Coast of East Antarctica, Victoria . It rises up to 1175 m high between the Garwood Valley and the Marshall Valley and extends in an east-west orientation.
The ridge was very likely discovered by the team led by Albert Armitage to explore the Koettlitz Glacier during the British Discovery Expedition (1901-1904). However, mapping was only carried out during the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913). The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1982 based on the neighboring Marshall Valley, whose namesake is Eric Marshall (1879-1963), doctor and member of the southern group in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) headed by the British Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Marshall Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marshall Ridge on geographic.org (English)