Weidner Ridge
| Weidner Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Weidner Ridge is a 3.5 km long mountain ridge of volcanic origin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It looms between Savage Ridge and Testa Ridge on the north slope of Mount Morning on the Scott Coast .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the American meteorologist George A. Weidner, who, together with his colleague Charles Stearns, drove the construction of automatically operating weather stations in Antarctica between 1982 and 2005 .
Web links
- Weidner Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Weidner Ridge on geographic.org (English)