Burn cliffs
| Burn cliffs | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| part of | Douglas Range | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 5 ′ S , 69 ° 47 ′ W | |
The Burn Cliffs are two 455 m high cliffs on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise up at the head of Haydn Inlet west of Mount Ethelwulf in the Douglas Range .
The cliffs were using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1966 and Landsat charted recordings in January 1947th The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1977 after the geologist Richard William Burn (* 1954) of the British Antarctic Survey , who was involved in the campaigns from 1975 to 1976 and from 1976 to 1977 on the Adelaide and northern Alexander I. Island was active.
Web links
- Burn Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burn Cliffs on geographic.org (English)