Rutherford Ridge
| Rutherford Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 14 ′ S , 161 ° 42 ′ E | |
Rutherford Ridge is a 9 km long and southwest-northeast oriented mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range it rises up to 1,550 m between the Wheeler Valley and the Lobeck Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2007 after the New Zealand physicist and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937).
Web links
- Rutherford Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rutherford Ridge on geographic.org (English)