Skaar Ridge

Skaar Ridge () is a ridge on the southeast side of

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Queen Alexandra Range The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. It is about long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to ...

. It trends southeast for 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) to

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. This area was first sighted by Shackleton's

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in 1908. The ridge is the site of the only known (1971) Permian peat deposit of Gondwana, discovered here by James M. Schopf of the

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, 1969–70. Named for Lieutenant Gerhard E. Skaar,

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, who piloted the helicopter that took Schopf to the locality and subsequent discovery. Ridges of the Ross Dependency Shackleton Coast {{ShackletonCoast-geo-stub