Reid Ridge
| Reid Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 57 ′ S , 160 ° 23 ′ E | |
Reid Ridge is a narrow, rocky and around 1700 m high mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the western flank of the mouth of the Cambridge Glacier in the Mackay Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after John R. Reid Jr., a glaciologist at Little America V from 1959 to 1960.
Web links
- Reid Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reid Ridge on geographic.org (English)