McLaren Ridge
| McLaren Ridge | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 52 ′ S , 67 ° 38 ′ E | |
McLaren Ridge is a mountain ridge in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 8 km west of Radok Lake at the head of the Battye Glacier .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1956 and 1960 were used for mapping. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him after William Allen McLaren (* 1938), a glaciologist at Wilkes Station in 1965.
Web links
- McLaren Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McLaren Ridge on geographic.org (English)