Ridgeway Glacier
| Ridgeway Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mountaineer Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 24 ′ S , 167 ° 14 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lady Newnes Bay , Ross Sea | |
The Ridgeway Glacier is a short glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows in the eastern part of the Mountaineer Range in a south-easterly direction to Lady Newnes Bay , which it reaches over the ice mist bay between the mountain ridges Spatulate Ridge and Gauntlet Ridge .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1966 after Norman M. Ridgeway, chief New Zealand scientist at Hallett Station from 1963 to 1964.
Web links
- Ridgeway Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ridgeway Glacier on geographic.org (English)