Interest Master Ridge

Interest Master Ridge
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
part of	Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 27 ′ S , 85 ° 15 ′ W Coordinates: 78 ° 27 ′ S , 85 ° 15 ′ W

Zinsmeister Ridge is a high and rugged mountain range 14.5 km in length in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It runs in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in a north-easterly direction starting from Schoening Peak in the Vinson massif . From the mountain range jagged peaks with heights between 2000 m and 3000 m rise up, separating the Hinkley Glacier from the upper section of the Dater Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2006 after the US geoscientist William John Zinsmeister (* 1946) from Purdue University , who researched the paleontology of molluscs on the Antarctic Seymour Island as part of the United States Antarctic Program .

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