Sugden Ridge
| Sugden Ridge | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 21 ′ S , 65 ° 11 ′ W | |
The Sugden Ridge is a mountain ridge in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it extends into the Thomas Hills . It is the southern part of two parallel mountain ridges between Martin Peak and Mount Warnke . The other is the Clapperton Ridge .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2010. It is named after the British geomorphologist David E. Sugden of the University of Edinburgh , who worked with the sub-Antarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula from the 1970s to the 1980s , from the 1990s to had dealt with the Transantarctic Mountains and the Antarctic Dry Valleys in the 2000s and with the Marie Byrd Land and the Weddell Sea in the 2000s .
Web links
- Sugden Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)