Warburton Ledge
| Warburton Ledge | ||
|---|---|---|
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
|
||
| Coordinates | 80 ° 13 ′ S , 157 ° 47 ′ E | |
Warburton Ledge is a 3200 m high, flattened, icy and steep-walled mountain ridge in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 6 km east of Mount McClintock .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Joseph Aubrey Warburton (1923-2005) of the University of Nevada, Reno , head of the meteorological program of the Ross Ice Shelf Project in the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1974 to 1975.
Web links
- Warburton Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Warburton Ledge on geographic.org (English)