Spatulate Ridge
| Spatulate Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Mountaineer Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 28 ′ S , 167 ° 13 ′ E | |
Spatulate Ridge ( English for spatula ridge ) is an icy mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises up in the Mountaineer Range and extends on the coast to the Ross Sea in a southeast direction between the Suter Glacier and the Ridgeway Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it a descriptive name in 1966 because its shape is reminiscent of a spatula .
Web links
- Spatulate Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spatulate Ridge on geographic.org (English)