Tigerstripe Ridge
| Tigerstripe Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Convoy Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 42 ′ S , 161 ° 30 ′ E | |
Tigerstripe Ridge (English for Tigerstreifengrat is) a ridge of the Convoy Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the north ridge of Flagship Mountain .
Scientists from the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program who worked in this area between 1989 and 1990 made the descriptive naming. Its name is derived from its banding made of stone of different colors, reminiscent of the striped fur of a tiger .
Web links
- Tigerstripe Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tigerstripe Ridge on geographic.org (English)