Fluke Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 45 ′ S , 62 ° 27 ′ W | |
Fluke Ridge is a narrow ridge in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises up to 300 m high on the northern flank of the Flask Glacier near its confluence on the Oskar II coast into the Weddell Sea .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named numerous geographic features in the area after things related to whales . This formation has been named after the fluke , the tail fin of whales , since 1988 .
Web links
- Fluke Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fluke Ridge on geographic.org (English)