Razor Ridge
| Razor Ridge | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Manning Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Razor Ridge ( English for razor blade ridge ) is a nunatak in the shape of a mountain ridge on the coast of the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises in the southern part of the Manning Nunatakker on the eastern flank of the southern section of the Amery Ice Shelf .
Aerial photographs of this and the neighboring Nunatakker were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and in 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). Participants of a Soviet Antarctic expedition visited them in 1965. The same applies to an ANARE team in 1969 whose actual target area was the Prince Charles Mountains . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it descriptive.
Web links
- Razor Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)