Phillips Ridge (Antarctica)
| Phillips Ridge | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Framnes Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 50 ′ S , 62 ° 49 ′ E | |
Phillips Ridge is a 800 m long mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 800 m west of the main massif of the Central Masson Range in the Framnes Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped the mountain ridge using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after John Phillips, a physicist at Mawson Station in 1962.
Web links
- Phillips Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Phillips Ridge on geographic.org (English)