Elliot Ridge
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| location | Seymour Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 13 ′ S , 56 ° 38 ′ W | |
Elliot Ridge is a 100 m high mountain ridge on the West Antarctic Seymour Island . It extends from Cape Wiman in an easterly direction parallel to the coastline.
Polish scientists named it in 1999 after the British geologist David Hawksley Elliot (* 1936), who worked in the area for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1960 to 1961 .
Web links
- Elliot Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)