Taylor Ridge
| Taylor Ridge | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 48 ′ S , 153 ° 21 ′ W | |
Taylor Ridge is a 16 km long mountain ridge in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises as a striking rock face along the west side of the Scott Glacier between the confluences of the Koerwitz and Vaughan glaciers .
Members of a team of geologists led by Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered him on the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after 1967 after John H. Taylor, ionospheric physicist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1966.
Web links
- Taylor Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Taylor Ridge on geographic.org (English)