Mount Ritchie
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Mount Ritchie is a mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 rising over 1600 m in the southeast part of Warren Range
Warren Range
Warren Range is a range about 15 nautical miles long just west of Boomerang Range, with which it lies parallel, in Oates Land. Discovered by the Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition , which called the highest summit "Mount Warren" after Guyon Warren, a member...

. The feature is 3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Wise Peak
Wise Peak
Wise Peak is a small peak marking the south end of Warren Range in Oates Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Keith A.J. Wise, biologist working out of the McMurdo Station for five seasons, 1960-61 to 1964-65....

 on the west side of Deception Glacier
Deception Glacier
Deception Glacier is a glacier between the Warren and Boomerang Ranges, flowing south into upper Mulock Glacier. So named by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition because it appears to lead directly into Skelton Neve but instead drains southward....

. Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1970-71, after A. Ritchie, curator of fossils at the Australian Museum
Australian Museum
The Australian Museum is the oldest museum in Australia, with an international reputation in the fields of natural history and anthropology. It features collections of vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, as well as mineralogy, palaeontology, and anthropology...

, Sydney, a member of the VUWAE party that discovered important sites of fossil fish in this Skelton Neve
Skelton Neve
Skelton Neve is the immense neve of the Skelton Glacier, lying on the west side of the Royal Society Range. Almost circular in outline, it is about 40 miles in diameter and has an area of about 1,300 square miles. It was surveyed by New Zealand parties of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic...

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