Zenker Ridge
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| location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 18 '42 " S , 36 ° 29' 48" W | |
Zenker Ridge is a low mountain ridge made of moraine rubble on the north coast of South Georgia . It extends from Osmic Hill in a northeastern direction to Discovery Point on Cumberland East Bay .
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld mapped it. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named it in 1951 in the course of measurements after the fixing solution for biological samples named after the German histologist Konrad Zenker.
Web links
- Zenker Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zenker Ridge on geographic.org (English)