Barracouta Ridge
| Barracouta Ridge | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 20 ′ S , 166 ° 35 ′ W | |
Barracouta Ridge (English for Snoekrücke ) is a long and jagged mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it stretches from Mount Fridtjof Nansen in a northerly direction to Webster Knob at the head of the Strøm Glacier .
The geological team around Laurence McKinley Gould (1896–1995) on the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) discovered it in 1929. It was first climbed by the southern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963–1964) . This named it after its similarity with the serrated dorsal fin of a Snoek ( Thyrsites atun , also known as pike mackerel ; in New Zealand also called barracouta ).
Web links
- Barracouta Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barracouta Ridge on geographic.org (English)