Lyttelton Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 21 ′ S , 63 ° 7 ′ W | |
Lyttelton Ridge is a dark, rugged and up to 425 m high mountain ridge on the Foyn coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises with a length of 6 km in a northwest-southeast orientation on the west side of the Churchill Peninsula .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1947 and named it after the British politician Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos (1893–1972), Minister of Production in the War Cabinet under Winston Churchill . Aerial photographs were also taken in 1947 during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948).
Web links
- Lyttelton Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lyttelton Ridge on geographic.org (English)