Bird Ridge
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| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 47 ′ S , 55 ° 4 ′ E | |
Bird Ridge is a partly icy and 11 km long mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Kempland . It rises 10 km northwest of Storegutt and west of Edward VIII Bay .
It was mapped using aerial photographs from 1956 taken as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . It is named after Garry Bird, chief electrical engineer at Mawson Station in 1961.
Web links
- Bird Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bird Ridge on geographic.org (English).