Morgan Ridge
| Morgan Ridge | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 29 ′ S , 64 ° 41 ′ E | |
Morgan Ridge is a small and rocky mountain ridge with an east-west orientation in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it looms between Mount Pollard and Mount Small .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1956 to 1965 were used for mapping purposes. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Peter J. Morgan, a glaciologist at Wilkes Station in 1964.
Web links
- Morgan Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Morgan Ridge on geographic.org (English)