Wylie Ridge
| Wylie Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 51 ′ S , 168 ° 27 ′ E | |
Wylie Ridge is a 10 km long mountain ridge in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains , it stretches from Meier Peak westward along the north flank of the Massey Glacier and ends at its confluence with the Man-o-War Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Lieutenant Commander Ronald Perry Wylie (* 1933), helicopter pilot of the VX-6 flight squadron during Operation Deep Freeze in 1967 and 1968.
Web links
- Wylie Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wylie Ridge on geographic.org (English)