Trajer Ridge
| Trajer Ridge | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Vestfold Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 34 ′ S , 78 ° 30 ′ E | |
Trajer Ridge is a 125 m high and rocky mountain ridge on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In the Vestfold Mountains it rises on the south side of the base of the Breidnes peninsula .
Aerial photographs were taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947), the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1954, 1957 and 1958) and in 1956 during a Soviet Antarctic expedition . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the ridge after Frank Louis Trajer, a weather observer at Davis Station , who visited him on foot from there on November 4, 1961, together with the doctor Malcom Cave Hay.
Web links
- Trajer Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trajer Ridge on geographic.org (English)