Slagle Ridge
| Slagle Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 55 ′ S , 169 ° 50 ′ E | |
Slagle Ridge is a high, massive and snow-covered mountain ridge in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains, it rises between the Slone and Burnette glaciers .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1970 after Thomas Dick Slagle (1905-1983), senior physician on the station Little America V in 1958.
Web links
- Slagle Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Slagle Ridge on geographic.org (English)