Tilman Ridge () is a ridge forming the northwestern arm of the
Allan Hills
The Allan Hills are a group of hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
They are mainly ice free and about long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the ...
, in
Oates Land
Oates Land is a region of Antarctica. It is variously defined as a portion of the East Antarctica near the coast stretching along and inland from the Oates Coast (see map) and as an officially delineated wedge-shaped segment of the Australian A ...
. Its northernmost point is called Stopes Point. The ridge and its constituent features were first reconnoitered and named by the
New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP)
Allan Hills Expedition
Allan may refer to:
People
* Allan (name), a given name and surname, including list of people and characters with this name
* Allan (footballer, born 1984) (Allan Barreto da Silva), Brazilian football striker
* Allan (footballer, born 1989) (Al ...
of 1964.
The ridge itself is named for
W. H. Tilman, a mountaineering associate of
Eric Shipton and
N. E. Odell, after whom nearby
Shipton Ridge and
Odell Glacier
Odell Glacier is a glacier draining northeast between Allan Hills and Coombs Hills into the upper Mawson Glacier in Oates Land. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Professor N.E. Odell, formerly of Otago Univer ...
are named. The point is named for
Marie Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification ...
, authority on Carboniferous
palaeobotany.
Townrow Peak is a prominent outlier of the Tilman Ridge, named after paleobotanist
J. A. Townrow of the
University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College (University of Tasmania), Christ College, one of the unive ...
.
Ship Cone is a conical
peak, south of Townrow Peak. It is named after a similarly shaped peak in the
Hokonui Hills,
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ...
.
extends southward from it.
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References
Ridges of Oates Land
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