Mistral Ridge
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 33 ′ S , 68 ° 4 ′ W | |
Mistral Ridge is a 10 km long and mainly snow-covered mountain ridge on the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 8 km east of the Zonda Towers with a north-northwest-south-southeast orientation.
The United States Navy took aerial photographs of him in 1966. Measurements were made between 1971 and 1972 by the British Antarctic Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the mistral , the katabatic wind in southern France .
Web links
- Mistral Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mistral Ridge on geographic.org (English)