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)
Amundsen Ridges (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Amundsen Ridges (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge (6)
This name originates from . It is part of the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Named after the Norvegian Polar explorer Roald Amundsen 1872-1928, who led the expedition that first reached the South Pole in 1911. He also was the first to fly over the North Pole on a airship in 1926.
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