Waldrip Ledge
| Waldrip Ledge | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 57 ′ S , 157 ° 43 ′ E | |
Waldrip Ledge is a 900 m high, 6 km ² and with ledges strewn plateau in Australian Antarctic territories . On the northern edge of the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , it is on the east side of the mouth of the Ragotzkie Glacier in the Hatherton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2000 after David Waldrip of the engineering company Holmes & Narver from Orange , California , who ran a field research camp for a team from the United States Antarctic Research Program to explore the Darwin Glacier , which is located between 1978 and 1979 not far from the plateau.
Web links
- Waldrip Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Waldrip Ledge on geographic.org (English)