Marescot Ridge is a ridge consisting of numerous ice-covered hills, the highest being Crown Peak

Crown Peak

Crown Peak is an ice-covered peak topped by a conspicuous crown-shaped ice formation. It forms the highest summit and the south end of Marescot Ridge and lies 10 nautical miles east of Cape Roquemaurel on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula...

 (1,185 m) at the south end of the ridge. Located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) inland from Marescot Point

Marescot Point

Marescot Point is a small but distinctive low rocky point projecting north from Trinity Peninsula, 2.5 nautical miles east of Thanaron Point...

 along the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

. This ridge was probably observed by Captain Jules Dumont

Jules Dumont

Jules Dumont was born in Roubaix, 1 January 1888, and died at Suresnes, Mont Valérien, 15 June 1943.Dumont was a French militant Communist. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, commanding the Commune de Paris Battalion, XIV International Brigade. He was active in the French Resistance in the Second...

 d'Urville on February 27, 1838, when he named nearby "Cap Marescot" (now Marescot Point). Following its 1946 survey, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) gave the name Marescot Ridge to this ridge, thinking it to be the coastal feature named by d'Urville. The name Marescot has been retained for both the ridge and the nearby point.