Name details

Wise Ridge

Wise Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Wise Ridge  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 135736

Feature type: Ridge (2d)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A sharp-crested ridge, 5km long, extending southwest northeast between Dahe Glacier and Willis Glacier, Saint Johns Range, Victoria Land. Peaks on the ridge rise 1200m-1525m above sea level. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME08

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2005) after Sherwood W. Wise, Jr., Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, who had a significant part in the planning, coring, analysing, and storage of Southern Ocean geological specimens, 1973-2004.

Location

Latitude:
77° 16' 24.5" S
-77.27348°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 58' 48.4" E
161.98010°
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Altitude:
1280 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 17_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-Oct-2005

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