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Antarctica ID: | 4765 |
Name: | Fanning Ridge |
Class: | Ridge |
Latitude: | -54.3333333 |
Longitude: | -37.0333333 |
Description: | Prominent rock ridge, 5 mi long, paralleling the S coast of South Georgia between Aspasia Point and the W side of Newark Bay. The ridge was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC), following its mapping by the South Georgia Survey (SGS) in 1951-52, for Captain Edmund Fanning (1770-1841) of Stonington, CT, who with the Aspasia took 57,000 fur seal skins at South Georgia in 1800-01, and published the earliest account of sealing there. |
BGN: | 01-JAN-56 |
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