Astro cliffs
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 62 ° 26 ′ W | |
The Astro Cliffs are 60 m high cliffs on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . As the southeastern extension of the Churchill Peninsula, they rise up 10 km northeast of Cape Alexander .
In 1955, the cliffs were the southernmost object to be surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) that year. The designation by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 is based on the fact that the FIDS set an astronomical benchmark for the survey work from the top of the cliffs.
Web links
- Astro Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Astro Cliffs on geographic.org (English)