Breached Cone
| Breached Cone | ||
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Breached Cone ( English for pierced cone ) is a volcanic cone on the Antarctic Ross Island . Not far from Hut Point, it rises inland from Castle Rock .
The Australian geologist Frank Debenham , participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , named him descriptively in the course of surveying work he undertook in 1912 in this area.
Web links
- Breached Cone in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)