Sullivan Ridge
| Sullivan Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 47 ′ S , 177 ° 5 ′ E | |
 Map sheet The Cloudmaker from 1965 (reprinted 1988), Sullivan Ridge near the center of the southeast map district |
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Sullivan Ridge is a massive and 15 miles long ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . With a steep, irregularly shaped eastern flank, it towers over the Ramsey glacier and, with its moderately rising, icy western slope, the Muck glacier . It stretches from Husky Heights in a mainly northerly direction to the confluence of the Muck and Ramsey Glaciers.
The formation was discovered and photographed during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1962 after Walter Seager Sullivan Jr. (1918–1996), a journalist for the New York Times who reported extensively on the discovery and exploration of Antarctica.
Web links
- Sullivan Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sullivan Ridge on geographic.org (English)