Pardo Ridge
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 Map of Elephant Island with the Pardo Ridge |
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| location | Elephant Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 61 ° 8 ′ S , 54 ° 53 ′ W | |
Pardo Ridge is an up to 760 m high mountain ridge on Elephant Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It stretches from The White Company in the west to Cape Valentine on the east end of the island.
Participants in the UK Joint Services Expedition (1970–1971) mapped it and named it. Namesake is the Chilean captain Luis Pardo (1882-1935), commander of the tug Yelcho in the rescue of the missing on Elephant Island members of the endurance expedition (1914-1917) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton in August 1916.
Web links
- Pardo Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pardo Ridge on geographic.org (English)