Slagle Ridge () is a high and massive snow-covered ridge between Slone Glacier and Burnette Glacier in the

Admiralty Mountains The Admiralty Mountains (alternatively Admiralty Range) is a large group of high mountains and individually named ranges and ridges in northeastern Victoria Land, Antarctica. This mountain group is bounded by the sea (Ross Sea and Southern Ocean) ...

, Victoria Land, Antarctica.

Exploration and name

Slagle Ridge was mapped by the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on Mar ...

(USGS) from surveys and

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air photos, 1960–63. It was named by the United States

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) for Captain Thomas D. Slagle, U.S. Navy, Chief Medical Officer at

Little America V Little America was a series of Antarctic exploration bases from 1929 to 1958, located on the Ross Ice Shelf, south of the Bay of Whales. They were built on ice that is moving very slowly, the relative location on the ice sheet, has moved and eventu ...

in 1958.

Location

The Slagle Ridge extends northwest-southeast between the Slone Glacier and Burnette Glacier, both tributaries of the Moubray Glacier, which flows down the west side of the Adare Peninsula. The Murray Glacier originates to the north of the ridge. It is east of Mount Sabine, Mount Von Braun and Mount Whewell, and southwest of Mount Robinson and Mount Ruegg.

Nearby features

Mount Sabine

. A prominent, relatively snow-free mountain rising to high between the heads of Murray Glacier and Burnette Glacier. Discovered on January 15, 1841 by Captain James Ross, RN, who named this feature for Lieutenant Colonel Edward Sabine of the Royal Artillery, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, one of the most active supporters of the expedition.

Mount Von Braun

. Mountain high located south of Mount Sabine. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for

Wernher von Braun Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( ; ; 23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German–American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and '' Allgemeine SS'', the leading figure in the development of ...

of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a visitor at McMurdo Station, 1966-67.

Mount Whewell

. A massive mountain high between the mouths of

Ironside Glacier Moubray Bay () is a bay in the western Ross Sea, indenting the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Cape Roget and Cape Hallett. It was discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for George H. Moubray, clerk in charge of t ...

and Honeycomb Glacier. Named by Sir James Clark Ross, January 15, 1841, for the Reverend Doctor

William Whewell William Whewell ( ; 24 May 17946 March 1866) was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics. The breadth of Whewell's endeavours is ...

, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mount Robinson

. A mountain high at the head of the DeAngelo Glacier. Discovered on January 15, 1841, by Captain

James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of both the northern and southern polar regions. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions led by his uncle, Sir John Ross, John ...

, Royal Navy, who named the feature for Rev. Doctor

Thomas Romney Robinson John Thomas Romney Robinson (23 April 1792 – 28 February 1882), usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was an Irish astronomer. He was the director of the Armagh Observatory, one of the chief astronomical observatories in the UK o ...

of Armagh, one of the more active promoters of magnetic research in the Antarctic and a member of the committee of the British Association which advocated sending out this expedition.

Mount Ruegg

. The culminating peak high on the divide between DeAngelo Glacier and Moubray Glacier. Named by the

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) 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 pl ...

(NZ-APC) for Captain H. Ruegg, nautical advisor to the Marine Department of New Zealand, a visitor to the Ross Sea area in 1956.

Mount Bevin

A prominent sharply pointed mountain which rises to high at the west side of the head of Murray Glacier. The mountain stands west-northwest of Mount Sabine. Named by US-ACAN (2004) after Anthony (Tony) J. Bevin, Surveyor-General, New Zealand, and Chairman, New Zealand Geographic Board, 1996-2004, with responsibility for New Zealand surveying and place naming in Antarctica.

References

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