Blanchard Ridge is a rocky ridge, high, at the north side of the mouth of Wiggins Glacier on

Kyiv Peninsula Kyiv Peninsula (, ) is the predominantly ice-covered, oval shaped peninsula projecting 35 km in northwest direction from the west side of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Flandres Bay to the northeast and Beascochea Bay ...

on the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

. It was mapped by the

French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10 The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several France, French expeditions in Antarctica. 1837–1840 In 1837, during an 1837–1840 Jules Dumont d'Urville#Second voyage of Astrolabe, expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain ...

, and named by

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, (15 July 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris – 16 September 1936 at sea (30 miles north-west of Reykjavik, Iceland), was a French scientist, medical doctor ...

for a Monsieur Blanchard, then French

Consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...

Punta Arenas Punta Arenas (, historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital List of cities in Chile, city of Chile's southernmost Regions of Chile, region, Magallanes Region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena. Although officially renamed as ...

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
* Ridges of Graham Land Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub