Yamagata Ridge
| Yamagata Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 5 ′ S , 157 ° 2 ′ E | |
Yamagata Ridge is a narrow, straight, 5 km long and 1690 m high mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains, it rises 8 km west of Seay Peak in the north-central part of the Finger Ridges .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2001 after the geochemist Noboru Yamagata from the Japanese Health Department, who was involved in four campaigns in the Antarctic Dry Valleys between 1963 and 1969 as part of Japanese Antarctic expeditions .
Web links
- Yamagata Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Yamagata Ridge on geographic.org (English)