Jensen Ridge
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| location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 42 ′ S , 45 ° 39 ′ W | |
Jensen Ridge is a curvy mountain ridge on Signy Island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . It extends from the Foca Point to Jane Col .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after Gullik Anton Jensen (1901-1982), captain of the Norwegian whaler Strombus , who had headed for the waters around Signy Island between 1935 and 1936.
Web links
- Jensen Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jensen Ridge on geographic.org (English)