Ferguson Ridge
| Ferguson Ridge | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 23 ′ S , 59 ° 49 ′ W | |
Ferguson Ridge is a 855 m high mountain ridge in Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Nordenskjöld coast, it rises in a north-north-west-south-south-east orientation southwest of the Nodwell Peaks .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1983 after the Irish engineer Harry Ferguson (1884-1960), who had worked on the development of tractors from 1911 and from whose activities in 1958 the manufacturer Massey Ferguson emerged .
Web links
- Ferguson Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ferguson Ridge on geographic.org (English)