Saddleback Ridge
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| location | Half Moon Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 35 ′ S , 59 ° 55 ′ W | |
Saddleback Ridge (English for literally saddle back ridge ) is a mountain ridge up to 125 m high and 1.2 km long on Half Moon Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises in the northern part of the island.
The descriptive naming followed geological work of the British Antarctic Survey between 1975 and 1976. It alludes to a permanent ice cover in the center of the mountain ridge, which is reminiscent of a riding saddle .
Web links
- Saddleback Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Saddleback Ridge on geographic.org (English)