Gony Ridge
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| location | Bird Island ( South Georgia ) | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 1 ′ S , 38 ° 4 ′ W | |
Gony Ridge is one of Tussock overgrown and interspersed with scattered pools ridge on Bird Iceland in the archipelago of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It rises up to 70 m east of Jordan Cove .
British scientists named it in 1968 based on the name of Gony Point . This is named after the term Gony for the wandering albatross ( Diomedea exulans ), which is one of the breeding areas of Bird Island.
Web links
- Gony Ridge . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)