Ares cliff
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 50 ′ S , 68 ° 14 ′ W | |
The Ares-Cliff is a cliff made of light sandstone on the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It rises 500 m east of the Mars Glacier and 1.5 km north of the Two Step Cliffs on the east coast of the island.
Participants in the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) mapped the cliff using Trimetrogon aerial photographs. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey between 1948 and 1950. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1975 after Ares , the god of terrible war, bloodbath, and massacre from Greek mythology .
Web links
- Ares Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ares Cliff on geographic.org (English)