Chopin Ridge
| Chopin Ridge | ||
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| height | 265 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 8 ′ 45 " S , 58 ° 7 ′ 56" W | |
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Chopin Ridge ( Polish Grań Chopina ) is a 265 m high mountain ridge on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises north-south between the Lions Rump and the Low Head .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition to King George Island, which lasted from 1977 to 1979, named him after the Polish-French composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the Polish name to English on April 3, 1984.
Web links
- Chopin Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chopin Ridge on geographic.org (English)