Pendant Ridge
| Pendant Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 4 ′ S , 174 ° 45 ′ W | |
Pendant Ridge (English for attachment ridge ) is a 5 km long mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it extends 2.5 km northwest of Simplicity Hill in a south-westerly direction to the mouth of the McGregor Glacier in the Shackleton Glacier .
A team from Texas Tech University to explore the Shackleton Glacier between 1964 and 1965 made the naming. It is named after the fact that a pyramid-shaped mountain peak on the southern foothills of the mountain ridge appears as if it were hanging from it like a pendant.
Web links
- Pendant Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pendant Ridge on geographic.org (English)