Himalia Ridge [SEP] continent
Himalia Ridge
Himalia Ridge is a ridge running east–west on the north side of the Ganymede Heights massif, north-east of Jupiter Glacier, in the east of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947 and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. The ridge was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee following British Antarctic Survey geological work, 1983–84, after Himalia, a satellite of the planet Jupiter,
with adjacent Mars Glacier, Phobos being the inner of the two satellites of the planet Mars, the fourth planet of the Solar System.
See also.
- Arenite Ridge
- Himalia Ridge
- Offset Ridge