Tasman Ridge
| Tasman Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 2 ′ S , 163 ° 3 ′ E | |
Tasman Ridge is a 5 km long mountain ridge in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises in the Royal Society Range at a distance of 10 miles northeast of Mount Lister . In the northwest it is bounded by the Ball Glacier , in the southeast by the Hooker Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1994 like other geographical objects in the area after corresponding objects of the Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand. Extended namesake is thus the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman (1603-1659).
Web links
- Tasman Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tasman Ridge on geographic.org (English)