Pearsall Ridge
| Pearsall Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 52 ′ S , 163 ° 6 ′ E | |
Pearsall Ridge is a predominantly icy mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends from the Royal Society Range in an east-northeast direction between Descent Pass and Covert Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after the American cartographer Richard A. Pearsall of the United States Geological Survey , who worked as a geodesist in the Ellsworth Mountains between 1979 and 1980 and also at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station at that time Work on the exact determination of the geographic South Pole was involved.
Web links
- Pearsall Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pearsall Ridge on geographic.org (English)