Pickard Ridge
| Pickard Ridge | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Vestfold Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 37 '20 " S , 78 ° 8' 40" O | |
Pickard Ridge is a 2.5 km long, average 600 m wide, up to 70 m high and irregularly shaped mountain ridge made of Precambrian rock on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In the Vestfold Mountains, it separates the Marine Plain from the Poseidon Basin and its southern extension in a north-north-west-south-south-east orientation . It is part of a specially protected area in Antarctica (ASPA # 143).
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1995 after John Pickard, who explored this area while wintering at Davis Station in 1980.
Web links
- Pickard Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Map of the protected area (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)