Shapley Ridge
| Shapley Ridge | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 18 ′ S , 129 ° 10 ′ W | |
Shapley Ridge is a prominent mountain ridge in Marie-Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it extends from the Cleveland Mesa above the Reedy Glacier in an easterly direction and marks the eastern foothills of the Watson Escarpment .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the US geophysicist Alan Horace Shapley (1919-2006), vice chairman of the United States National Committee for the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958).
Web links
- Shapley Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shapley Ridge on geographic.org (English)