Zinsmeister Ridge

Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Sentinel Range map.

Zinsmeister Ridge is the high, rugged mountain ridge, 9 mi long, running northeast from Schoening Peak, Vinson Massif in the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. Jagged 2000 to 3000 m peaks including Vanand and Toros Peaks surmount the ridge, which separates Hinkley Glacier from the upper part of Dater Glacier.

The ridge is named by US-ACAN (2006) after William J. Zinsmeister, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, USAP researcher of the paleontology (molluscan fauna) of Seymour Island, 1975-95.

Coordinates: 78°27′00″S 85°15′00″W / 78.45000°S 85.25000°W / -78.45000; -85.25000

Maps

Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.

References

Zinsmeister Ridge. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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