Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Klaus-Weber-Rücken (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Klaus-Weber-Rücken (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge
This name originates from Germany. It is part of the Germany Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A ridge of approx. 300 m length, rising only a few metres above the snow surface, extending from NW to SE, one of the S-most exposures of Heimefrontfjella, approx. 7 km SE of Flisegga, Tottanfjella; was discovered on aerial photography taken by the Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie (Institue for Applied Geodesy), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1985/86 and visited and gelogically described for the first time in 1994; Maudheimvidda, Neuswabenland, Dronning Maud Land.
Klaus Weber (1936-2010), German geologist, member of two expeditions to Heimefrontfjella.
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