Thompson Ridge
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 27 ′ S , 146 ° 5 ′ W | |
Thompson Ridge is a 3 km long mountain ridge with north-south orientation on the Saunders coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises 5.5 km northwest of Mount Iphigene on the south bank of Block Bay .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) made aerial photographs of the mountain ridge and mapped it. The polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd , leader of this expedition, gave it his name. Gershom Joseph Thompson (1901–1975), urologist at the Mayo Clinic , who worked as a medical advisor for Byrd's first (1928–1930) and second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935), was named after Gershom Joseph Thompson .
Web links
- Thompson Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thompson Ridge on geographic.org (English)