Ridge Summit

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Ridge Summit
height 1534  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 52 '17 "  S , 162 ° 38' 29"  O Coordinates: 77 ° 52 '17 "  S , 162 ° 38' 29"  O
Ridge Summit (Antarctica)
Ridge Summit

The Ridge Summit ( English for ridge summit ) is a 1534  m high, ridge-like mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it extends east from Cathedral Rocks to the Blue Glacier .

The western group around the Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) named him descriptively in the course of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .

Web links

  • Ridge Summit in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)