Mercer Ridge
| Mercer Ridge | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Horlick Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 50 ′ S , 113 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Mercer Ridge is a distinctive and partly freezing mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains , it forms the southwestern end of the Mount Schopf massif .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1962 after the American geologist and glaciologist John H. Mercer (1922-1987), who had belonged to a team at Ohio State University to explore the Horlick Mountains between 1960 and 1961.
Web links
- Mercer Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mercer Ridge on geographic.org (English)