England Ridge
| England Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 2 ′ S , 162 ° 29 ′ E | |
England Ridge is a mountain range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the Scott coast it represents the north-eastern continuation of a glacial step northeast of Mount England . It consists of a snow-free summit ridge with steep, unsnow-covered rock walls that slope towards the mouth of the New Glacier .
The Italian pedologist Fiorenzo Caesare Ugolini (* 1929) explored it in January 1962 together with the New Zealand geologist Keith Charles Wise and the Austrian biologist Heinz Janetschek (1913–1997). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 based on the name of Mount England. Its namesake is Rupert England (1878–1942), officer on board the Morning for the liberation of the participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) under the direction of Robert Falcon Scott and later captain of the Nimrod in the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) ) under the direction of Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- England Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- England Ridge on geographic.org (English)