Warren Ridge
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Warren Ridge is a SW-NE ridge 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) long on the north slope of Kyle Hills
Kyle Hills
Kyle Hills is a prominent group of volcanic cones, hills, ridges, and peaks that occupy the east part of Ross Island between Mount Terror and Cape Crozier. The hills extend east-west for 8 nautical miles , rising from sea level at Cape Crozier to c.2600 m in Mount McIntosh at the west end of the...

, Ross Island
Ross Island
Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.-Geography:...

. The ridge rises to c.1100 m at the southwest end and culminates in Dibble Peak
Dibble Peak
Dibble Peak is a peak 2.3 nautical miles southwest of Post Office Hill in Kyle Hills, Ross Island. The peak rises to c.1100 m and marks the highest and SW-most point of Warren Ridge. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Raymond R...

, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) north of Ainley Peak
Ainley Peak
Ainley Peak is a prominent peak, high, located southwest of Post Office Hill in east Ross Island. Named after David G. Ainley, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Stinson Beach, California, a United States Antarctic Program ornithologist who studied penguin and skua populations at Cape Crozier and...

. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) (2000) after Stephen G. Warren, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric sciences
Atmospheric sciences is an umbrella term for the study of the atmosphere, its processes, the effects other systems have on the atmosphere, and the effects of the atmosphere on these other systems. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather...

, University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

, Seattle, who worked several summer seasons with United States Antarctic Program
United States Antarctic Program
United States Antarctic Program is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the continent of Antarctica. It co-ordinates research and the operational support for research in the region...

 (USAP) and ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division .-The ANARE Name:...

) from 1985; investigated climate processes on the Antarctic plateau in four deployments to South Pole Station, including the full year of 1992 as station science leader.
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