Filchner Ridge
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| location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 11 ′ S , 37 ° 0 ′ W | |
Filchner Ridge is a more than 550 m high mountain ridge in the north of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It rises in a north-south orientation between the Crean Glacier in the west and the Nineteen-sixteen Snowfield in the east.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2014. It was named after the German polar explorer Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957), head of the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912). Filchner was involved in the creation of a map that had served the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1916 when crossing South Georgia in the course of the endurance expedition (1914-1917).
Web links
- Minutes of APC Meeting . Minutes of the meeting of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee on April 11, 2014 to name the Filchner Ridge, among others.
- Filchner Ridge . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)