Sechrist Ridge
| Sechrist 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 , 162 ° 25 ′ E | |
Sechrist Ridge is a narrow, rocky and 5 km long mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range , it branches off in a north-easterly direction from a ridge immediately east of Mount Evans and ends 1.5 km east of Mount Bevilacqua .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2008 after cartographer Daniel Robert Sechrist of the United States Geological Survey , who worked in the Antarctic dry valleys from November to December 2004 .
Web links
- Sechrist Ridged in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sechrist Ridge on geographic.org (English)