Zebra Ridge
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 2 ′ S , 69 ° 14 ′ W | |
Zebra Ridge is a striking, rocky and 3 km long mountain ridge on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It is located 5 km south of the mouth of the Tumble Glacier in George VI Sound and protrudes 760 m above the ice masses in front of it.
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth sighted him from a distance on November 23, 1935 while taking aerial photographs of the Douglas Range . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took measurements in 1947 and named it after its characteristic banding .
Web links
- Zebra Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zebra Ridge on geographic.org (English)