Mummy Ridge
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Destination-Nunatakker , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 16 ′ S , 165 ° 39 ′ E | |
 Map sheet Freyberg Mountains with Mummy Ridge in the middle of the northeast quarter; the destination nunatakkers are still unnamed on the 1967 map |
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Mummy Ridge ( English for mummies grat ) is a mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . As part of the Destination Nunatakker, it rises 1.5 km east of Pyramid Peak .
The ridge was explored by New Zealand geologist Bradley Field of the New Zealand Geological Survey between 1981 and 1982. Field named it based on the names of the Pyramid Peak and the Sphinx Peak, which are also named after stereotypes of Egyptian antiquity.
Web links
- Mummy Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mummy Ridge on geographic.org (English)