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Wedge Ridge () is a conspicuous rock ridge, 1,145 m, near the head of
Blaiklock Glacier Blaiklock Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing north from Turnpike Bluff, then northwest to Mount Provender and Mount Lowe (Antarctica), Mount Lowe in the western part of the Shackleton Range, Antarctica. It was first mapped in 1957 by the Com ...
and immediately west of Pointer Nunatak in the west part of the
Shackleton Range The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica. Rising at Holmes Summit to , it extends in an east–west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery glaciers. The range was named after Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of the ...
. First mapped in 1957 by the CTAE. The name given by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...
(UK-APC) is descriptive of the shape of the feature. Ridges of Coats Land {{CoatsLand-geo-stub