Seely Ridge
| Seely Ridge | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 52 ′ 49 ″ S , 56 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ W | |
Seely Ridge is a 10 km long and up to 1240 m high mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it extends from the West Prongs in a northeastern direction to the Heiser Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1995 after Benjamin Warren Seely (1873-1954), a carpenter from Florida who developed an inflatable life raft in 1915 at Naval Air Station Pensacola .
Web links
- Seely Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Seely Ridge on geographic.org (English)