Ridley Beach
| Ridley Beach | ||
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 Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula with Ridley Beach |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Robertson Bay , Somow Lake | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 18 '20 " S , 170 ° 11' 16" O | |
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The Ridley Beach is a tapered and 1.5 km long beach in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 1.5 km south of Cape Adare on the west coast of the Adare Peninsula .
The beach was the site of the winter camp of the British Southern Cross Expedition under the direction of the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink . He named it after his mother's maiden name . The northern group led by the British polar explorer Victor Campbell (1875-1956) on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) went ashore here in 1911 and extended the name to the entire beach. It is the site of one of the world's largest breeding colonies of Adelie penguins .
Web links
- Ridley Beach in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ridley Beach on geographic.org (English)