Peterson Ridge () is a high rock ridge that extends north from the west part of
Storm Peak massif, in
Queen Alexandra Range
The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica.
It is about long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to ...
. Named by the
Ohio State University Geological Expedition
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
, 1969–70, for
Donald N. Peterson, party member who collected basalt lavas from the ridge for petrologic and paleomagnetic studies.
Ridges of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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