Pavie Ridge or Cap Pavie or Île Pavie is a

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located at in

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which rises over 500 m. It extends south and west from Martin Glacier to Moraine Cove, and forms the southeastern limit of the

Bertrand Ice Piedmont Bertrand Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont about long and from wide, lying between Rymill Bay and Mikkelsen Bay on the Fallières Coast of Graham Land. Bertrand Ice Piedmont is bounded on the southeast side by Pavie Ridge and on the northeast side ...

, on the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that 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 name "Île Pavie" was given in 1909 by the

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led by

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean-Ba ...

to an

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(or possibly a

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) shown on the

maps at . From a position 15 miles southeast of Jenny Island,

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of the French Antarctic Expedition, made sketches of this feature which were labeled "Île Pavie" and "Cap Pavie". Pavie Ridge was named by Charcot presumably for Auguste J. M. Pavie (1847-1925),

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and

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. This general area was surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under

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, but the feature already named by Charcot was not identified. After later surveys by the

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(FIDS) in 1948, Charcot's "Île Pavie" was identified from Bongrain's sketches as the feature now named

Red Rock Ridge Red Rock Ridge or Morro Roca Roja or Promontorio Roca Roja is a conspicuous reddish-colored ridge or promontory which rises to 690 m and projects from the west coast of Graham Land between Neny Fjord and Rymill Bay. Red Rock Ridge is located ...

. The name Red Rock Ridge had become too firmly established to alter; thus, the original name Pavie Ridge has been approved for the isolated rocky ridge described above as forming the southern limit of the Bertrand Ice Piedmont. Its position is not far removed from the original position indicated by Charcot.

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Ridges of Graham Land Fallières Coast {{FallièresCoast-geo-stub