Engelhardt Ice Ridge
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Engelhardt Ice Ridge () is an ice ridge between Whillans Ice Stream and Kamb Ice Stream (formerly Ice Streams B and C) near the junction of Gould Coast and Siple Coast in Marie Byrd Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Hermann Engelhardt, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology; United States Antarctic Program (USAP) geophysicist who drilled boreholes in Whillans and Kamb Ice Streams in four field seasons, 1991-96.
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