Nash Ridge
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Eisenhower Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 17 ′ S , 163 ° 0 ′ E | |
Nash Ridge is a massive and towering mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is 16 km long, 8 km wide and extends in the eastern Eisenhower Range between the O'Kane Glacier and the Priestley Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1955 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the American biologist Harold Anthony Nash (* 1918), who worked at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic summers from 1965 to 1966 and from 1966 to 1967 .
Web links
- Nash Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nash Ridge on geographic.org (English)