Matthews Ridge

Matthews Ridge
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
part of	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	70 ° 57 ′ S , 167 ° 3 ′ E Coordinates: 70 ° 57 ′ S , 167 ° 3 ′ E

Matthews Ridge is a high, 10 km long, mostly snow-covered mountain ridge on the Pennell coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the south side of the Tapsell Foreland , forms the east face of the McElroy Glacier and ends at the Barnett Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the geologist Jerry L. Matthews, who lived in the Horlick Mountains from 1965 to 1966 and worked in the area around the McMurdo station from 1966 to 1967 .

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