Fanning Ridge
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| location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 19 '54 " S , 37 ° 1' 26" W | |
Fanning Ridge is a distinctive, approximately 8 km long and rocky mountain ridge that runs parallel to the south coast of South Georgia between Aspasia Point and the west side of Newark Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 after the German-born traveling salesman Edmund Fanning (1769-1841), who transported 57,000 seal skins from South Georgia between 1800 and 1801 with the Corvette Aspasia .
Web links
- Fanning Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fanning Ridge on geographic.org (English)