Miss Ridge
| Miss Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 41 ′ S , 166 ° 24 ′ E | |
 Yule Bay map sheet from 1968; the conspicuous peninsula of Missen Ridge and Davis Ice Piedmont formed |
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Missen Ridge is a long, ice-covered mountain ridge on the Pennell Coast of East Antarctica in Victoria . It rises south of the Davis Piedmont Glacier on a peninsula, the northeast end of which is formed by Cape Hooker .
Participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions named him after R. Missen, a weather technician who was involved in the Thala Dan's research expedition along the north coast of Victoria in 1962 as part of this series of expeditions .
Web links
- Missen Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Missen Ridge on geographic.org (English)