Breakwind Ridge
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| location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 9 ′ 8 ″ S , 36 ° 50 ′ 50 ″ W | |
Breakwind Ridge ( English for windbreaker ridge ) is a 3 km long and up to 860 m high mountain ridge with north-south orientation on the north coast of South Georgia . It rises southwest of the head end of Fortuna Bay .
The ridge was probably named Breakwind Range by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations , who mapped Fortuna Bay between 1929 and 1930. After survey work between 1951 and 1952 by the South Georgia Survey , the name was adapted to better reflect the actual nature of the formation. It is named after the fact that this ridge keeps strong winds from the southwest and west.
Web links
- Breakwind Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Breakwind Ridge on geographic.org (English)