Savage Ridge
| Savage Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Savage Ridge is a 4 km long mountain ridge on the Scott Coast of East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It rises in a north-south orientation 800 m west of the Weidner Ridge on the northwest slope of Mount Morning .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after the US meteorologist Michael L. Savage from the University of Wisconsin , who was involved in the construction of automatic weather stations in Antarctica from 1980 to 1986 .
Web links
- Savage Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Savage Ridge on geographic.org (English)