Pontes Ridge
| Pontes Ridge | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 8 ′ S , 156 ° 24 ′ E | |
Pontes Ridge is a mountain ridge in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , it extends 6 km south of Derrick Peak in an easterly direction to the McCraw Glacier .
Participants in the Antarctic expedition undertaken by the New Zealand University of Waikato between 1978 and 1979 named it after Ad Pontes , an ancient Roman settlement in what is now Staines-upon-Thames .
Web links
- Pontes Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pontes Ridge on geographic.org (English)