It ws discovered by the United States Antarctic Service in a flight from East Base on December 30, 1940, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Edmund Fanning, of Stonington, CT, and New York City, who in addition to actual Antarctic exploration in connection with his sealing and whaling business also vigorously promoted exploration by others under both private and public auspices.
Edmund Burke | Edmund Spenser | Edmund Hillary | Edmund Wilson | Edmund Husserl | Dakota Fanning | Edmund Muskie | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | Edmund Barton | Edmund the Martyr | Edmund Rubbra | Edmund Kirby Smith | Edmund Gosse | SS Edmund Fitzgerald | George Edmund Street | Edmund Kean | Edmund Francis Law | Edmund Campion | St Edmund Hall, Oxford | Shawn Fanning | Edmund Sharpe | Edmund Blunden | Edmund | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' | Edmund White | Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York | Edmund Ignatius Rice | Edmund Curll | Diane Fanning |
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.