Wise Ridge
| Wise Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 16 ′ 9 ″ S , 162 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Wise Ridge is a pointed gable ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range it rises in a southwest-northeast orientation and with heights between 1200 m and 1550 m between the Dahe glacier and the Willis glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the ridge in 2005 after the marine geologist Sherwood W. Wise Jr. (* 1941) from Florida State University , who from 1973 to 2004 carried out preparatory work as well as the extraction, analysis and storage of geological samples from the Southern Ocean was involved.
Web links
- Wise Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wise Ridge on geographic.org (English)