Spitz Ridge
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 Topographic map of Toney Mountain with Spitz Ridge (right) |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Toney Mountain | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 49 ′ S , 114 ° 52 ′ W | |
Spitz Ridge is a distinctive and mainly icy mountain ridge in Marie-Byrd Land in West Antarctica . East of the Cox Bluff it forms the eastern extension of Toney Mountain .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Armand Lawrence Spitz (* 1939), ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station in Antarctica Winter of 1966 and in the summer months between 1966 and 1967 also on the Hallett station .
Web links
- Spitz Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spitz Ridge on geographic.org (English)