Strømme Ridge
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 26 ′ S , 61 ° 41 ′ W | |
Strømme Ridge is a 25 km long, massive and icy mountain ridge on the Black Coast of Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates the Muus from the Soto glacier in a northwest-southeast orientation and ends on the north bank of Odom Inlet .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after the Norwegian oceanographer Jan A. Strømme of the University of Bergen , participant in the International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions in 1968 and 1969.
Web links
- Strømme Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Strømme Ridge on geographic.org (English)