Panter Ridge
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location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ' S , 169 ° 3' E |
Panter Ridge is an isolated, 800 m long and equally high mountain ridge on the Antarctic Ross Island . It projects between the Slattery Peak and the Detrick peak on
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle. It is named after Kurt Samuel Panter (* 1962), who was a doctoral student at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Marie-Byrd-Land , did his doctorate on rock finds at Mount Sidley and took part in five field research campaigns at Mount Erebus between 1988 and 1996 .
Web links
- Panter Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Panter Ridge on geographic.org (English)