Beaufoy Ridge
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| location | Coronation Island , South Orkney Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 38 ′ S , 45 ° 32 ′ W | |
Beaufoy Ridge is a mountain ridge on the south coast of Coronation Island in the Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . With a height of 650 m at its northwestern end, it rises on the west side of the Sunshine Glacier immediately north of Iceberg Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out the naming following a survey lasting from 1948 to 1949. It is named after the sloop Beaufoy of London , with which the Scottish captain Michael McLeod reached the South Orkney Islands on December 12, 1821 as part of James Weddell's second Antarctic voyage (1821-1822).
Web links
- Beaufoy Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beaufoy Ridge on geographic.org (English)