Rohnke Crests
| Rohnke Crests | ||
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Rohnke Crests are two approximately 1,400 m high and parallel mountain ridges on the Antarctic Ross Island . They rise up from the ice sheet southeast of Mount Terror and lie east of the head end of Eastwind Glacier and 6.5 km northeast of Conical Hill .
The formation is named after the American Rear Admiral Oscar C. Rohnke (1908-1997), who was the captain of the icebreaker USCGC Eastwind during the first Operation Deep Freeze (1955-1956) .
Web links
- Rohnke Crests in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rohnke Crests on geographic.org (English)