Blanchard Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 12 ′ S , 64 ° 3 ′ W | |
Blanchard Ridge is a rocky and up to 520 m high mountain ridge on the Kiev Peninsula on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the north side of the confluence of the Wiggins Glacier in the Penola Strait .
It was mapped during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named him Sommet Blanchard ( German Blanchard summit ) after Jean Blanchard, the then French consul in Punta Arenas , Argentina , who helped his expedition. The current name goes back to the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names from 1951.
Web links
- Blanchard Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blanchard Ridge on geographic.org (English)