Ridgeway Glacier
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Ridgeway Glacier is a short glacier
in the east part of Mountaineer Range
, draining southeast between Spatulate Ridge
and Gauntlet Ridge
into Lady Newnes Bay
, Victoria Land
. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
(NZ-APC) in 1966 for Norman Ridgeway, senior scientist at Hallett Station, 1963-64.
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
in the east part of Mountaineer Range
Mountaineer Range
Mountaineer Range is the range of mountains lying between the Mariner and Aviator Glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The seaward parts of the range were first viewed by Ross in 1841, and subsequently by several British and later American expeditions. The precise mapping of its overall features...
, draining southeast between Spatulate Ridge
Spatulate Ridge
Spatulate Ridge is an ice-covered ridge in the Mountaineer Range which extends southeast between Suter Glacier and Ridgeway Glacier to the coast of Victoria Land. The name is descriptive of the shape and was applied in 1966 by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee ....
and Gauntlet Ridge
Gauntlet Ridge
Gauntlet Ridge is a flat-topped, mainly ice-covered ridge, or peninsula, which separates the mouths of Nascent and Ridgeway Glaciers where they discharge into Lady Newnes Bay, Victoria Land. The name suggests the appearance of the feature in plan and was applied by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names...
into Lady Newnes Bay
Lady Newnes Bay
Lady Newnes Bay is a bay about 60 mi long in the western Ross Sea, extending along the coast of Victoria Land from Cape Sibbald to Coulman Island. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, led by Carstens Borchgrevink. He named it for Lady Newnes, whose husband, Sir George...
, Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board plus selected specialists on Antarctica...
(NZ-APC) in 1966 for Norman Ridgeway, senior scientist at Hallett Station, 1963-64.