Red Rock Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 18 ′ S , 67 ° 4 ′ W | |
Red Rock Ridge ( English for Red rocky ridge ) is a rocky and striking red-colored ridge of up to 690 m height at the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends on the northern edge of the Gabriel Peninsula between the Neny Fjord and Rymill Bay .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out the first geodetic survey of the area in 1936. Another survey in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey showed that the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot had named the formation as Ile Pavie or Cap Pavie as early as 1909 . Rymill's descriptive naming was retained, however, and Charcot's name was given to the ridge of Pavie Ridge .
Web links
- Red Rock Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Red Rock Ridge on geographic.org (English)