Testa Ridge
| Testa Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Testa Ridge is a 4.3 km long mountain ridge of volcanic origin in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It rises in a north-south orientation between the Weidner Ridge and the Riviera Ridge on the north slope of Mount Morning on the Scott coast .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the American biologist J. Ward Testa, who carried out population studies on Weddell seals at McMurdo Sound and other coastal areas in Antarctica between 1980 and 1994 .
Web links
- Testa Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Testa Ridge on geographic.org (English)