Sansom Ridge
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 50 ′ S , 69 ° 0 ′ E | |
Sansom Ridge is a 32.2 km long, 19.3 km wide and 348 m high press ice ridge in the east Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . It rises east of the Jetty Peninsula on the western edge of the Amery Ice Shelf .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Julian R. Sansom, medical officer of a crew of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions who had discovered this press ice ridge in 1968 on the Amery Ice Shelf .
Web links
- Samson Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)