Stever Ridge
| Stever Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 51 ′ S , 168 ° 2 ′ E | |
Stever Ridge is an irregularly shaped mountain ridge in the Victory Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends from Mount Riddolls in a south-easterly direction to the confluence of the Behr Glacier in the Borchgrevink Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after the American physicist Horton Guyford Stever (1916-2010), director of the National Science Foundation from 1972 to 1974, who worked in Antarctica in 1973 and 1975 .
Web links
- Stever Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stever Ridge on geographic.org (English)