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Matsch Ridge () is a prominent ridge at an elevation of about , extending for in a west-northwest direction from
Mount Ulmer Mount Ulmer () is a prominent peak situated 2 miles north of Mount Washburn in Gromshin Heights on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts the head of Vicha Glacier to the east and Newc ...
in
Gromshin Heights Gromshin Heights ( bg, Громшински възвишения, ‘Gromshinski Vazvisheniya’ \'grom-shin-ski v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights rising to 2731 m
on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is connected to
Mount Wyatt Earp Mount Wyatt Earp () is a mainly snow-covered summit (topography), peak, 2,370 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) west-northwest of Mount Ulmer in the north part of Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It is connected to Matsch Ridge and Mount Ulme ...
on the west-northwest by
Skamni Saddle Skamni Saddle ( bg, седловина Скамни, ‘Sedlovina Skamni’ \se-dlo-vi-'na 'skam-ni\) is the 1.3 km long ice-covered saddle of elevation 1750 m in northern Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica connecting Mount ...
. The ridge was named by the
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 ...
in 1982 after Charles Matsch, Professor of Geology,
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...
, Duluth, who as a member of the
United States Antarctic Research Program The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...
Ellsworth Mountains Expedition, 1979–80, worked at this ridge.


Maps


Newcomer Glacier.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.


References

Ridges of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub