Noble Ridge
| Noble Ridge | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 56 ′ S , 61 ° 13 ′ E | |
Noble Ridge ( English , Russian Гора Билибина Gora Bilibina ) is an up to 2100 m high and snowy mountain ridge in the Prince Charles Mountains of the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . In the Goodspeed Nunatak core, it rises north of Betts Nunatak , west of Humphreys Ridge and 9 km east of Skinner Nunatak at the head end of Fisher Glacier .
Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions first sighted them in 1957 and took aerial photographs in 1958 and 1960. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Roger S. Noble, a weather observer at Mawson Station in 1971 and a member of a team exploring the Prince Charles Mountains in 1972. Russian scientists, however, named it after the Soviet geologist Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin ( 1901-1952).
Web links
- Noble Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)