Ruth Ridge

Ruth Ridge is a black, rocky ridge one and a half nautical miles long in a N-S direction, terminating at its south end in a small peak. , rocky ridge on the Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory. The ridge runs east to west and rising to 4,626 feet on the north side of the Drygalski Glacier. The ridge forms the south end of Detroit Plateau, and marks a change in the direction of the plateau escarpment along the east coast of Graham Land where it turns west to form the north wall of Drygalski Glacier.

Following a survey of this coast by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902, the eastern end of this feature was mapped as a cape and named 'Kap Ruth' after Ruth Nordenskjöld, sister of N.O.G. Nordenskjöld, Leader of the expedition. It was later mapped as 'Cape Ruth' on several charts.

The feature was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Hope Bay" in November 1947: the survey found the "cape" to be five and a half miles inland from the coast, and so it was renamed 'Ruth Ridge'. The ridge was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in the 1956-57 season, and further surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Hope Bay" in 1961.

Location

• Location map: 64°38’27"S, 60°51’33"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Ruth Ridge