La Dorsale
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| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 49 ′ S , 141 ° 24 ′ E | |
La Dorsale ( French for the backbone ) is a long, narrow and up to 33 m high mountain ridge on the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . Its extension forms the highest point of the southern part of a peninsula, the northern extension of which is Cape Margerie .
French scientists named it descriptively in 1950.
Web links
- Dorsale, La in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and French)