Bermel Escarpment
| Bermel Escarpment | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Thiel Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 17 ′ S , 89 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Bermel Escarpment is an approximately 25-kilometer-long step of rock and snow that extends in the Thiel Mountains from the base of the Ford massif to King Peak . It falls from the polar plateau about 300 to 400 meters to the ice surface north of these mountains.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1962 after Peter Frank Bermel (1927-2017), cartographer of the United States Geological Survey , who led an expedition of the survey into the Thiel Mountains from 1960 to 1961 together with Arthur B. Ford and between 1962 and 1963 undertook geodetic surveys in the area from Cape Hallett to the Wilson Hills and from Beardmore Glacier to the Horlick Mountains .
Web links
- Bermel Escarpment in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bermel Escarpment on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 153 and 571 (English).