Arrival Heights
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 View from Second Crater to the south of Arrival Heights |
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 49 ′ S , 166 ° 39 ′ E | |
 Topographic map of the Hut Point Peninsula with the Arrival Heights (bottom center) |
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The Arrival Heights ( English for arrival altitudes are) rock cliffs on the Antarctic Ross Island . They extend in a northeast-southwest orientation along the west coast of the Hut Point Peninsula immediately north of the location of the base camp of the British Discovery Expedition (1901-1904). The cliffs are included in the list of specially protected areas in Antarctica under No. 122.
The name of the cliffs refers to the arrival of the Discovery Expedition to the Hut Point Peninsula in February 1902.
Web links
- Arrival Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Arrival Heights on geographic.org (English)