Rampart Ridge
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 10 ′ S , 161 ° 55 ′ E | |
 Map sheet Mount Harmsworth from 1963 (new edition 1988), Rampart Ridge in the northern quarter of the eastern edge of the map |
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Rampart Ridge (meaning protection wall ) is a distinctive and rugged mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises north of the Rutgers Glacier and extends from The Spire to Bishop Peak .
Members of the northern New Zealand geodetic team in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) gave the formation its descriptive name in February 1957 in the course of survey work.
Web links
- Rampart Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rampart Ridge on geographic.org (English)