Voigt Ledge
| Voigt Ledge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Convoy Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 48 ′ S , 160 ° 48 ′ E | |
The Voigt Ledge is a flattened and 2000 m high mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range it protrudes 500 m above the heads of the Greenville Valley and the Merrell Valley , between which it lies. The ridge is about 3 km long and 2.5 km wide, tapering to the north.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2008 after Donald E. Voigt of Pennsylvania State University , who between 1995 and 2008 was involved in a total of twelve field research campaigns on glaciological , geophysical and seismological studies in various areas of Antarctica, including the Transantarctic Mountains .
Web links
- Voigt Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Voigt Ledge on geographic.org (English)