Weber Ridge
| Weber Ridge | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 20 ′ S , 63 ° 11 ′ W | |
Weber Ridge is a 870 m high, 13 km long, rocky and non-iced mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the northern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it looms at the northern end of the Anderson Hills .
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the topography engineer Max K. Weber, who worked for the USGS between 1965 and worked in the Pensacola Mountains in 1966.
Web links
- Weber Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Weber Ridge on geographic.org (English)