Beche Blade () is a sharp-crested ridge rising to between Murchison Cirque and Arkell Cirque on the south side of the

Read Mountains Read Mountains is a group of rocky summits, the highest being Holmes Summit at , lying east of Glen Glacier in the south-central part of the Shackleton Range. Name The Read Mountains were first mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarct ...

Shackleton Range The Shackleton Range () is a mountain range in Antarctica that rises to and extends in an east–west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery Glaciers. Surveys The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), which in 1956 s ...

. It was photographed from the air by the

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest displacement, at 4.5 million tons in 2021. It has the world's largest aircraft ...

, 1967, and surveyed by the

British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of list of global issues, global issues, and to provide an active prese ...

, 1968–71. In association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, it was named in 1971 by the

UK 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 ...

after

Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS (10 February 179613 April 1855) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. He was the ...

, English geologist, first

Director-General A director general, general director or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''general directors'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals'') is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer ...

of the

Geological Survey of Great Britain The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. The BGS head ...

(later the Institute of Geological Sciences), 1835–55.

References

* Ridges of Coats Land {{CoatsLand-geo-stub