Scallop Ridge
| Scallop Ridge | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Berry Peaks in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 26 ′ S , 139 ° 0 ′ W | |
Scallop Ridge is a 5 km long and undulating mountain ridge in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It forms the southwestern part of the Berry Peaks
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years 1960 to 1963, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him 1967 descriptively, as its turns to the ribs of the shell of a scallop ( English scallop recalls).
Web links
- Scallop Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scallop Ridge on geographic.org (English)