Rutherford Ridge

Rutherford Ridge (77°12′26″S 161°43′45″E) is a transverse ridge, 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km) long, extending southwest to northeast across the Saint Johns Range between Wheeler Valley and Lobeck Glacier, Victoria Land. The ridge rises to 1,550 metres (5,090 ft) in Mount Rowland.

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It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron of Nelson and Cambridge (1871-1937), a British physicist of New Zealand birth and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1908. His researches in radiation and atomic structure were basic to the later 20th-century developments in nuclear physics.