Battleship Promontory
| Battleship Promontory | ||
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 55 ′ S , 160 ° 55 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Gran Glacier | |
The Battleship Promontory (German: Battleship Landspitze ) is a headland made of sandstone in the Convoy Range of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends as the foothills of Mount Gran in a northerly direction into the head end of the Alatna Valley and is flanked to the east by the Gran Glacier .
The descriptive naming was also suggested by the American geologist Parker Emerson Calkin (1933-2017), who carried out stratigraphic surveys in the Alatna Valley between 1960 and 1961 .
Web links
- Battleship Promontory in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Battleship Promontory on geographic.org (English)