Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Ruth Ridge

(Nordenskjöld Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 38' 27" S 60° 51' 33" W
running E-W and rising to 1410m on N side of Drygalski Glacier, Nordenskjöld Coast. Following survey of this coast by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902, the E 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 Swedish Antarctic Expedition. The feature was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay' in November 1947, when it was found to lie 9km inland from the coast; renamed Ruth Ridge; photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and further surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay' in 1961.