Ranger Ridge
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| location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 16 ′ S , 36 ° 23 ′ W | |
Ranger Ridge is a mountain ridge in the north of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . On the Barff Peninsula , it extends from Lurcock Lake in a north-westerly direction to Barff Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2014. It is named after the rangers from the Norwegian Nature Conservation Authority ( Statens naturoppsyn , SNO), who were involved in the extermination of the introduced reindeer on the Barff Peninsula in 2014.
Web links
- Ranger Ridge . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)