# Fanning Ridge

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**Fanning Ridge** ([54°20′S 37°2′W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=54_20_S_37_2_W)) is a prominent rock ridge, 5 nautical miles (9 km) long, paralleling the south coast of [South Georgia](/source/South_Georgia_Island) between [Aspasia Point](/source/Aspasia_Point) and the west side of [Newark Bay](/source/Newark_Bay_(South_Georgia)). The ridge was named by the [UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee](/source/UK_Antarctic_Place-Names_Committee), following its mapping by the [South Georgia Survey](/source/South_Georgia_Survey) in 1951–52, for Captain [Edmund Fanning](/source/Edmund_Fanning_(explorer)) of [Stonington, CT](/source/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.[1]

## References

1. 4765. Retrieved 2012-03-14.

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