Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Phobos Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Phobos 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:
rising to c. 500m on W side of Mars Glacier, E Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947; roughly surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1949 and named in association with the glacier, Phobos being the inner of the two satellites of Mars (APC, 1955, p.17; DOS 610 sheet W 71 68, 1960); mapped by FIDS in 1959 from RARE air photographs.
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