Pavie Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 34 ′ S , 66 ° 59 ′ W | |
Pavie Ridge is an isolated, rocky and up to 500 m high mountain ridge on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends south and west of the Martin Glacier to Moraine Cove and represents the southeastern boundary of the Bertrand Piedmont Glacier .
Jean-Baptiste Charcot named a supposed island or a corresponding cape as Île Pavie or Cap Pavie on maps that were created in the course of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) . In survey work that was undertaken in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , Charcot's object could not be identified. In the course of further measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1948, the Red Rock Ridge was assigned to the object named by Charcot based on the sketches that Charcot's geodesist Maurice Bongrain (1879-1951) had made . Since its name had been established in the meantime, Charcot's name was transferred to the mountain ridge described here. It is probably named after the French diplomat and explorer Auguste Pavie (1847–1925).
Web links
- Pavie Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pavie Ridge on geographic.org (English)