Red Ridge
| Red Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 6 ′ S , 162 ° 8 ′ E | |
Red Ridge ( English for Red Ridge ) is a mountain ridge of striking reddish rock in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Gonville and Caius Range, it rises west of the Robson Glacier .
The ridge was given its descriptive name by the Australian geologist and polar explorer Frank Debenham , who carried out surveys here in 1912 during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Red Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Red Ridge on geographic.org (English)