Telephone Ridge
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Telephone Ridge in the northwest of the island |
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location | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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Coordinates | 62 ° 56 ′ S , 60 ° 43 ′ W |
Telefon Ridge is a ridge on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands with a maximum height of 265 m . It looms west of Telefon Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 in connection with the bay of the same name after the SS Telefon , a cargo steamer built in 1900 under the Norwegian flag, which ran on a reef off King George Island in 1908 .
Web links
- Telephone Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Telefon Ridge on geographic.org