O'Neal Ridge
| O'Neal Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 48 ′ S , 168 ° 45 ′ E | |
O'Neal Ridge is a high ridge in the Victory Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . With northeast-southwest orientation it rises between the Ingham and Humphries glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Russell D. O'Neal, a member of the National Science Board from 1972 to 1977, who had visited several research stations in Antarctica as part of the United States Antarctic Program in 1975 .
Web links
- O'Neal Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- O'Neal Ridge on geographic.org (English)