Simpson Ridge (Antarctica)
| Simpson Ridge | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Framnes Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 6 ′ S , 62 ° 23 ′ E | |
Simpson Ridge is an isolated, sharp-edged, and jagged mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Framnes Mountains it rises 1.5 km south of the Tvitoppen .
Norwegian cartographers mapped the mountain ridge using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Christopher R. Simpson, an electrical engineer at Mawson Station in 1967.
Web links
- Simpson Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Simpson Ridge on geographic.org (English)