Fluke Ridge
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Fluke Ridge is a narrow rock ridge rising to about 300 m on the north side of Flask Glacier
near the terminus, on Oscar II Coast
, Graham Land
. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1987. One of several names in the area from Melville's Moby Dick which reflect a whaling theme.
Flask Glacier
Flask Glacier , is a gently-sloping glacier, 25 miles long, flowing east from Bruce Plateau to enter Scar Inlet between Daggoo and Spouter Peaks in Graham Land, Antarctica. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947...
near the terminus, on Oscar II Coast
Oscar II Coast
Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather and Cape Alexander. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden....
, Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1987. One of several names in the area from Melville's Moby Dick which reflect a whaling theme.