Whitworth Ridge
| Whitworth Ridge | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 24 ′ S , 66 ° 8 ′ E | |
Whitworth Ridge is a rocky ridge in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 3 km northeast of Mount Leckie .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1956 were used for mapping purposes. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after the geophysicist Roy Whitworth (* 1930), who worked at Wilkes Station in 1963 .
Web links
- Whitworth Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whitworth Ridge on geographic.org (English)