Polarstar Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Polarstar Ridge (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
running SW from The Obelisk, Staccato Peaks (q.v.), S Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935 (Joerg, 1936, right-hand photograph, Fig.14, p.458; Ellsworth, 1937, map facing p.296); following surveys by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1961-73, named after Ellsworth's low-wing monoplane Polar Star, a single-engined Northrop Gamma aircraft piloted by H. Hollick-Kenyon (Kenyon Peninsula, q.v.) (APC, 1980, p.5; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/13, 2-DOS 1984).
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