Navarro Ridge
| Navarro Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 52 ′ S , 160 ° 13 ′ E | |
Navarro Ridge is a rugged, 5.5 km long and up to 2100 m high mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends south from the Coombs Hills to the west flank of the Cambridge Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2008 after members of the Navarro family (Kenneth Navarro, his wife Carol Gould Navarro, his sister Suzanne McCullough Navarro, his brother Steven Navarro and his children Eliot Gould and Tyler Gould) who lived between 1989 and 2008 worked in different functions within the United States Antarctic Program at McMurdo Station , Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and Palmer Station .
Web links
- Navarro Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Navarro Ridge on geographic.org (English)