McClintock Ridge
| McClintock Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 3 ′ S , 161 ° 0 ′ E | |
The McClintock Ridge is a striking, east-west oriented and 11 km long mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains it rises 10 km north of Rubin Peak in the Carnegie Range . Near the Mansergh Wall , it reaches a height of around 1400 m and drops to around 400 m as far as the Algie Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after the American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock (1902-1992).
Web links
- McClintock Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McClintock Ridge on geographic.org (English).