Rector Ridge
| Rector Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Quartermain Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 54 ′ S , 160 ° 33 ′ E | |
The Rector Ridge is a massive and up to 2150 m high mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains it rises at the head of the Beacon Valley between the Friedmann Valley and the Mullins Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after Jack Brown Rector Jr. (* 1946) of the United States Navy , commander of the Navy unit VXE-6 in Antarctica from May 1987 to May 1988.
Web links
- Rector Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rector Ridge on geographic.org (English)