Mount Ritchie

Mount Ritchie
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height	1600 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Warren Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 78 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Ritchie is a 1600 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the southeastern part of the Warren Range, it rises 5 km northeast of Wise Peak on the western flank of the Deception Glacier .

Scientists from a 1970 to 1971 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions made the name. It is named after Alexander Ritchie, curator for fossils at the Australian Museum in Sydney , who discovered fish fossils in the area of the Skelton Firnfield during this campaign .

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