Grimes Ridge
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 38 ′ S , 110 ° 30 ′ W | |
Grimes Ridge is a high and mostly icy mountain ridge in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . On the Walgreen Coast, it rises on the Bear Peninsula on the northern flank of the Holt Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947) from January 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Captain E. W. Grimes, a member of the United States Navy's flight department in Antarctica in support of the operation Deep Freeze in 1966.
Web links
- Grimes Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grimes Ridge on geographic.org (English)