Shipton Ridge
| Shipton Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Allan Hills in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 40 ′ S , 159 ° 51 ′ E | |
Shipton Ridge is a mountain range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the northeast branch of the Allan Hills .
It was explored in 1964 by a team working in the Allan Hills as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program . This named him after the British mountaineer Eric Shipton (1907–1977) and his connection to the New Zealand geologist Noel Ewart Odell (1890–1987), after whom the nearby Odell Glacier is named.
Web links
- Shipton Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shipton Ridge on geographic.org (English)