Tech crags
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 37 ′ S , 166 ° 45 ′ E | |
The Tech Crags are about 1000 m high and rugged mountain ridge on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 3 km south of Williams Cliff and marks a slope on the north flank of the broad Turks Head Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ( New Mexico Tech ) in Socorro , from which numerous students conducted research on Mount Erebus under the guidance of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle (* 1947) had carried out.
Web links
- Tech Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tech Crags on geographic.org (English)