Butson Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 5 ′ S , 66 ° 49 ′ W | |
Butson Ridge is a rocky ridge with some ice-capped peaks up to 1305 m in height on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flanks the Northeast Glacier to the northwest. Its western cornerstone is the Schauinsland mountain .
A first survey was carried out in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937). Further measurements followed between 1946 and 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The ridge is named after Arthur Richard Cecil Butson (1922–2015), FIDS doctor on Stonington Island , who saved the life of a member of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) after falling into a crevasse in 1947 .
Web links
- Butson Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Butson Ridge on geographic.org (English)