Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Pardo Ridge

(Elephant Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 61° 8' 9" S 54° 52' 59" W
forming the central part of E Elephant Island, rising to 760m, and extending from The White Company E-ward to The Cornet, thence NE-ward to the coast, was surveyed by the Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island which applied names to various features on the ridge. Pic de Gaulle, referring to a peak on the N side of the ridge WSW of Cape Belsham and so called in reference to Gen. C. de Gaulle's facial profile, later Flat Top, referring to a peak at the W end of the ridge and Mount Heathcliffe, referring to a peak near the E end of the ridge and High Peak, referring to a peak at the E end of the ridge, and the Postern, referring to a peak near the E end of the ridge, Mount Talisker, referring to a peak on the ridge. The name Pardo Ridge was later applied to the whole feature after Capt. Luis Alberto Pardo Villalón (1882-1935), commanding the Chilean tugboat Yelcho (Cape Yelcho, q.v.), which rescued 22 members of British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition from Point Wild, 30 August 1916.