Kitching Ridge () is a prominent rock ridge on the west side of

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, between Bennett Platform and Matador Mountain, in the

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of Antarctica. It was named by the

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for

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n vertebrate paleontologist

James W. Kitching James William Kitching (6 February 1922 – 24 December 2003) was a South African vertebrate paleontology, vertebrate palaeontologist and regarded as one of the world’s greatest fossil finders. Career His work in the southern hemisphere, in ...

who first found fossils here. Kitching was an exchange scientist with the

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Institute of Polar Studies 1970–71 geological party to the Queen Maud Mountains.

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Ridges of the Ross Dependency Dufek Coast {{DufekCoast-geo-stub