Turret Ridge
| Turret Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Turret Ridge (English for wall tower ridge ) is an 8 km long mountain ridge in the Victory Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Millen Range, it rises from Turret Peak in a northeasterly direction.
A team of geologists from the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program visited him between 1981 and 1982. The team named him based on the name of Turret Peak.
Web links
- Turret Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turret Ridge on geographic.org (English)