Shinn Ridge
| Shinn Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Shinn ( 4661 m ) | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 26 ′ S , 85 ° 34 ′ W | |
Shinn Ridge is a rocky mountain range in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains , it extends from Mount Shinn in a northeasterly direction over a length of 6.5 km.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2006 based on the name of the mountain of the same name after Conrad Selwyn Shinn (* 1922), a pilot in the United States Navy , who landed the first time at the geographic South Pole with a Douglas DC-3 on October 31, 1956 succeeded.
Web links
- Shinn Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shinn Ridge on geographic.org (English)