Muller Ridge
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| location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 10 ′ S , 37 ° 2 ′ W | |
Müller Ridge is a more than 1000 m high mountain ridge in the north of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It rises in a north-south orientation between the Compass Glacier in the west and the Crean Glacier in the east near the head end of Antarctic Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2014. It is named after Johannes Müller († 1941), Second Officer in charge of navigation on board the Deutschland for the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner . Together with Filchner, Müller had created a map that the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton had used in 1916 when he crossed South Georgia as part of the endurance expedition (1914–1917).
Web links
- Minutes of APC Meeting . Minutes of the meeting of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee on April 11, 2014 to name Müller Ridge, among others
- Muller Ridge . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)