Sickle Ridge
| Sickle Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 1 ′ S , 162 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Sickle Ridge (English for sickle ridge ) is an 8 km long and over 2600 m high mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range , it extends from The Handle massif in a southerly direction between the Tedrow and Emmanuel glaciers and ends in Murcray Heights .
Geologists from the New Zealand Geological Survey explored it during a campaign from 1987 to 1988. The New Zealand Geographic Board descriptively named it after its sickle shape in 1994 .
Web links
- Sickle Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sickle Ridge on geographic.org (English)