Pinther Ridge
| Pinther Ridge | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Dyer Plateaus | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 21 ′ S , 64 ° 17 ′ W | |
Pinther Ridge is a 10 km long, mostly snow-covered and arched mountain ridge in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . With a height of up to 2275 m, it rises 35 km south of the Eternity Range from the ice masses on the eastern edge of the Dyer Plateau .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after Miklos Pinther (* 1940), senior cartographer of the American Geographical Society in the 1970s.
Web links
- Pinther Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pinther Ridge on geographic.org (English)