Ridge Island
| Ridge Island | ||
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| Waters | Bourgeois Fjord | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 41 '23 " S , 67 ° 4' 56" W | |
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| length | 10 km | |
| width | 2.5 km | |
Ridge Island is an island reminiscent of a mountain ridge ( English ridge ) , which is about 5 km east of the Pourquoi Pas Island in the middle of the Bourgeois Fjord off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula .
It was discovered and descriptively named by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- Ridge Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ridge Island on geographic.org (English)