Berntsen Ridge
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| location | South Georgia , South Atlantic | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 10 ′ S , 36 ° 43 ′ W | |
Berntsen Ridge is a mountain ridge 580 m high at its western end on the north coast of South Georgia . It extends on the Pintail Peninsula from Tønsberg Point in a westerly direction.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after the Norwegian whaling captain Søren Berntsen (1880-1940), who founded the whaling station in Husvik Harbor on behalf of Tønsberg Hvalfangeri and in 1910 became its first administrator.
Web links
- Berntsen Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Berntsen Ridge on geographic.org (English)