Zakharoff Ridge

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Zakharoff Ridge ( 72°55′S75°7′E / 72.917°S 75.117°E / -72.917; 75.117 Coordinates: 72°55′S75°7′E / 72.917°S 75.117°E / -72.917; 75.117 ) is a ridge with several peaks, mostly snow-covered, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Mount Harding in the Grove Mountains. Mapped by ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) from air photos, 1956–60, it was named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for Oleg Zakharoff, radio officer at Mawson Station, in 1960.

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Mount Harding is the largest mountain in the Grove Mountains of Antarctica, in the south-central part of the range and about 4 nautical miles (7 km) west of Gale Escarpment. It was mapped by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1956–60) from aerial photographs, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for N.E. Harding, a topographic draftsman with the Division of National Mapping, Australian Department of National Development, who contributed substantially to the production of Antarctic maps.

The Grove Mountains are a large, scattered group of mountains and nunataks extending over an area of approximately 40 by 20 miles, located 100 miles (160 km) east of the Mawson Escarpment in American Highland, Antarctica. They were first photographed from the air by aircraft of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Squadron Leader I.L. Grove, a Royal Australian Air Force pilot with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, who made a November 1958 landing in these mountains.

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