Schoonmaker Ridge
| Schoonmaker Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 39 ′ S , 158 ° 50 ′ E | |
Schoonmaker Ridge is a 7 km long and rugged mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains , it extends from the southern part of the Reeves Plateau in an easterly direction.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2000 after remote sensing scientist James William Schoonmaker Jr., who worked as a topography engineer for the United States Geological Survey between 1972 and 1976 in three Antarctic summer campaigns on geodetic surveys on the South Pole and the Byrd Station , the Antarctic Peninsula , the Ellsworth Mountains and the Ross Ice Shelf .
Web links
- Schoonmaker Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schoonmaker Ridge on geographic.org (English)