Beche Blade
| Beche Blade | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Shackleton Range | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 43 ′ S , 24 ° 20 ′ W | |
Beche Blade (English for Bèche blade ) is a 1600 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 1545 m ) high and sharp-edged mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It looms between Murchison Cirque and Arkell Cirque on the south side of the Read Mountains in the Shackleton Range .
The United States Navy took aerial photographs in 1967. Surveys were carried out from 1968 to 1971 by the British Antarctic Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the ridge in 1971 after the British geologist Henry Thomas de la Bèche (1796–1855), the first director of the British Geological Survey from 1835 until his death .
Web links
- Beche Blade in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beche Blade on geographic.org (English)