Pardo Ridge
Pardo Ridge is the second highest part of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands, reaching an altitude of 2,800 feet. It forms the central part of eastern Elephant Island, and extends from The White Company in the west to The Cornet and thence north-eastwards to the coast at Cape Valentine.
The ridge was mapped by the Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island of 1970-71, and named by after Captain Luis Pardo, commander of the Chilean tug Yelcho which rescued the 22 shipwrecked members of Shackleton's British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, the Endurance expedition, from Elephant Island's Point Wild on 30 August 1916.
The expedition applied names to various features on the ridge: 'Pic de Gaulle' (a peak on the north side of the ridge west of Cape Belsham and so called in reference to the facial profile of General Charles de Gaulle', later Flat Top, and peaks on its eastern end; Mount Heathcliffe, High Peak and the Postern, and Mount Talisker also on the ridge.
Location
- Location map: 61°8’9"S, 54°52’59"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Pardo Ridge