Zakharoff Ridge
| Zakharoff Ridge | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Grove Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 55 ′ S , 75 ° 7 ′ E | |
Zakharoff Ridge is a mountain ridge with several mostly snow-capped peaks in Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . In the Grove Mountains, it rises 2.5 km southeast of Mount Harding .
The mountain ridge was mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1960 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Oleg Zakharoff, a radio operator on Mawson Station in 1960.
Web links
- Zakharoff Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zakharoff Ridge on geographic.org (English)