Roa Ridge

A prominent rock spur extending southwest from Roa Ridge into Matterhorn Glacier in Asgard Range, Victoria Land.

A ridge, 2.7 miles (4.3 km) long, that extends north from Hoehn Peak into the upper part of Bartley Glacier.

Named by the United States 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.

A rock peak, 2,050 metres (6,730 ft) high, 0.75 nautical miles (1.39 km; 0.86 mi) southwest of Mount Irvine on Roa Ridge.

A peak on Roa Ridge, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) northwest of Matterhorn.

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East end of Asgard Range south of center. Matterhorn between Matterhorn Glacier and Lacroix Glacier above the Taylor Valley.