Emergency Ridge
| Emergency Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Olympus Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 27 ′ S , 162 ° 6 ′ E | |
Nottage Ridge is a high and rocky ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It separates the Baumann Valley from the Sanford Valley north of Mount Peleus in the eastern section of the Olympus Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 after the American topography engineer George William Nottage, who was part of the team of the United States Geological Survey between 1971 and 1972 whose work was carried out in an area of 6000 km 2 between 160 ° and 164 ° east longitude and 77 ° 15 ′ and 77 ° 45 ′ south latitude led to the creation of eight topographical maps published by the survey in 1977 on a scale of 1: 50,000.
Web links
- Nottage Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nottage Ridge on geographic.org (English)