Pavie Ridge
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pavie Ridge or Cap Pavie or Île Pavie is an isolated rocky ridge rising over 500 m, which extends south and west from Martin Glacier to Moraine Cove, and forms the southeastern limit of Bertrand Ice Piedmont, on the west coast of Graham Land. Pavie Ridge is located at and has an elevation of 500 m. The name "Île Pavie" was given in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot to an island, or possible cape, shown on the French Antarctic Expedition maps in . From a position 15 miles southeast of Jenny Island, Maurice Bongrain, French Antarctic Expedition surveyor, made sketches of this feature which were labeled "Île Pavie" and "Cap Pavie".
This general area was surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under John Riddoch Rymill, but the feature named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot was not identified. Following further surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948, Jean-Baptiste Charcot's "Île Pavie" was identified from Maurice Bongrain's sketches as the feature now named Red Rock Ridge. The name Red Rock Ridge is now too firmly established to alter. The name Pavie Ridge has therefore been approved for the isolated rocky ridge described above as forming the southern limit of Bertrand Ice Piedmont, and whose position is not far removed from the original position indicated by Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Pavie Ridge was named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, presumably for Auguste J. M. Pavie (1847-1925), French diplomat and explorer.
