Polarstar Ridge
| Polarstar Ridge | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Staccato peaks | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 49 ′ S , 70 ° 30 ′ W | |
Polarstar Ridge (English for Polarsterngrat ) is a rugged and 6 km long mountain ridge in the south of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . In the Staccato Peaks it extends from The Obelisk in a south-westerly direction.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the Northrop Gamma Polar Star , the low-wing aircraft of the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth , with whom he and co-pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (1897-1975) discovered this mountain ridge on November 23, 1935 in an overflight and photographed.
Web links
- Polarstar Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Polarstar Ridge on geographic.org (English)