Transit Ridge
| Transit Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Transit Ridge is a 6 km long mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends from the Royal Society Range in an easterly direction between Spring Glacier and Mitchell Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1993 after a transit theodolite , a device for geodetic surveys.
Web links
- Transit Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Transit Ridge on geographic.org (English)