Willis Ridge
| Willis Ridge | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 36 ′ S , 85 ° 0 ′ W | |
Willis Ridge is a narrow mountain range in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It extends east-west between the Aster Glacier and the Sowers Glacier on the east side of Mount Craddock in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2006 after the geologist Michael J. Willis of Ohio State University , who between 1997 and 2006 carried out studies on the Siple Dome and the Whillans , Bindschadler and MacAyeal ice currents , among other things .
Web links
- Willis Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Willis Ridge on geographic.org (English).