Caloplaca cliff
| Caloplaca cliff | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Vestfold Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 34 ′ S , 78 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Caloplaca-cliff is a 2 km-long and 30 m high cliff of gneiss on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . In the Vestfold Mountains it rises in a south to south-east orientation.
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1983 after the orange-colored and thus widely visible lichens of the genus Caloplaca that colonize the cliff.
Web links
- Caloplaca Cliff in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)