Morelli Ridge

Morelli Ridge

Morelli Ridge (77°36′S 162°16′E / 77.6°S 162.267°E / -77.6; 162.267) is a ridge, 2.7 nautical miles (5.0 km) long, that extends north from Hoehn Peak into the upper part of Bartley Glacier, in Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Frank A. Morelli, Bioscience and Planetology Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, who studied the surface distribution of microorganisms in soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, 1970-71 field season; member of the environmental monitoring team for the Dry Valley Drilling Project, 1973-74.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Morelli Ridge" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).