Jensen Ridge
Jensen Ridge is a curving ridge running eastward from Foca Point toward Jane Col on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. It was named in 1991 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Captain Gullik Jensen, of the whaling ship Strombus from Tønsberg, Norway, who made the last whaling expedition to Signy Island in 1935–36.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Robin Peak and Sombre Lake.
Robin Peak
Peak
Robin Peak is a sharply defined rocky summit which is the northernmost peak on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 for Gordon de Quetteville Robin of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the leader at Signy Island base in 1947, who made the first detailed survey of the island.
Sombre Lake
Lake
Paternoster Valley is a valley extending southwestward from Stygian Cove in northern Signy Island. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee from the occurrence of three small paternoster lakes, at different levels in the valley.
Moss Lake
Lake
Paternoster Valley is a valley extending southwestward from Stygian Cove in northern Signy Island. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee from the occurrence of three small paternoster lakes, at different levels in the valley.
Jensen Ridge
- Type: Ridge with an elevation of 156 metres
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-60.68448° or 60° 41′ 4″ southLongitude
-45.63711° or 45° 38′ 14″ westElevation
156 metres (512 feet)Open location code
38FP8987+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 2150840221OpenStreetMap feature
natural=ridge
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Jensen Ridge” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jensen Ridge”
- Chinese: “延森嶺”
- Dutch: “Jensen Ridge”
- German: “Jensen Ridge”
- Ladin: “Jensen Ridge”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jensen Ridge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jensen Ridge”
- Swedish: “Jensen Ridge”
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