Blade Ridge
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 View from Hope Bay to Blade Ridge (left) with Whitten Peak , center: mouth of the Arena Glacier |
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 25 ′ S , 57 ° 5 ′ W | |
Blade Ridge (roughly translated: blade ridge ) is a rocky and up to 575 m high mountain ridge at the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is characterized by three peaks and forms the northwest face of the Depot Glacier at the head of Hope Bay on the Trinity Peninsula .
It was discovered during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of the polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld . The descriptive naming was carried out by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey after a survey of the area in 1945.
Web links
- Blade Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blade Ridge on geographic.org (English)