Unwin Ledge
| Unwin Ledge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Asgard Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 35 ′ S , 162 ° 37 ′ E | |
Unwin Ledge is a 1950 m high and flattened mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range , it looms west of the Hothem Cliffs and one mile south of Mount Hall . Its plateau-like summit ridge is icy and rises 400 m above the head ends of the Newall and Canada glaciers .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 1998 after Robert Sidney Unwin (1918-1996), former head of the DSIR Geophysics Division , who worked from 1958 to 1959 at Scott Base .
Web links
- Unwin Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Unwin Ledge on geographic.org (English)