Hopkins Ridge
| Hopkins Ridge | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| part of | Havre Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 22 ′ S , 71 ° 51 ′ W | |
Hopkins Ridge is a mountain ridge in the Havre Mountains in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises in the form of a headland 1.9 km north of Dint Island and 9 km west of Mount Holt on Lasarev Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2015. It is named after the British biogeochemist David William Hopkins from the University of Gloucestershire , chairman of the British Antarctic Research Committee.
Web links
- Hopkins Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)