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Fanning Ridge
Fanning Ridge
is a prominent rock ridge, long, paralleling the south coast of
South Georgia
between
Aspasia Point
and the west side of
Newark Bay
. The ridge was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
, following its mapping by the
South Georgia Survey
in 1951–52, for Captain
Edmund Fanning
of
Stonington, CT
, who with the
Aspasia
took 57,000 fur seal skins at South Georgia in 1800–01, and published the earliest account of sealing there.
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