Nichols Ridge
| Nichols Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Asgard Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 28 ′ S , 162 ° 44 ′ E | |
Nichols Ridge is a mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the eastern Asgard Range, it rises between the Denton Glacier and the Decker Glacier from the heights north of Mount Newall to the mouth of the Lower Wright Glacier at the eastern end of the Wright Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1997 after Robert Leslie Nichols (1904-1995), who was one of the first US geologists to explore the Wright Valley from 1958.
Web links
- Nichols Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nichols Ridge on geographic.org (English)