Endurance Ridge

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Coordinates: 62 ° 30 ′  S , 40 ° 0 ′  W

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Endurance Ridge is an undersea mountain ridge in the Antarctic Weddell Sea . It runs southeast of the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands .

The naming of this deep sea formation was confirmed in June 1987 by the US Advisory Committee for Undersea Features (ACUF). It is named after the Endurance , research ship of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton on the Endurance expedition (1914–1917).

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