Robertson Ridge
| Robertson Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Olympus Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 24 ′ S , 162 ° 12 ′ E | |
Robertson Ridge is a mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it flanks the northwestern part of the Clark Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after James D. Robertson, a geophysicist in the United States Antarctic Research Program at Byrd Station from 1970 to 1971, who was involved in geophysical surveys of the Ross Ice Shelf in two Antarctic summer campaigns between 1973 and 1975 .
Web links
- Robertson Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Robertson Ridge on geographic.org (English)