Gadarene Ridge
| Gadarene Ridge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Allan Hills in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 42 ′ S , 159 ° 33 ′ E | |
The Gadarene Ridge is a mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Allan Hills, it extends south from Ship Cone .
Participants of a team of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program to explore the Allan Hills examined it in 1964. They named it because of its resemblance to a pig's back after the healing of the possessed of Gerasa from the Gospel of Mark of the Bible (Mk 5, 1-20), in which Jesus brought the demons of a possessed person into a herd of pigs ( English Gadarene Swine ).
Web links
- Gadarene Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gadarene Ridge on geographic.org (English)