Wedge Face
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 Beardmore Glacier Topographic Map and Wedge Face (top center) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 12 ′ S , 171 ° 30 ′ E | |
Wedge Face (from English wedge 'wedge' and English face 'face, face' ) is a wedge-shaped mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Commonwealth Range of the Queen Maud Mountains , it extends from Mount Patrick to the eastern flank of the Beardmore Glacier .
It was probably the southern group around the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton who first sighted the ridge in December 1908 during the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909). It received its descriptive name in the course of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) by the South Pole team around the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Wedge Face in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wedge Face on geographic.org (English)