Cannonball cliffs
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 46 ′ S , 68 ° 13 ′ W | |
The Cannonball cliffs are cliffs of 500 m altitude on the eastern side of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . They rise up on the south side of the mouth of the Neptune Glacier in the George VI Sound .
The cliffs were using Trimetrogon -Luftaufnahmen the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and by measurements of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey charted from 1948 to 1950. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after numerous concretions containing the sandstone in this area and as a " cannonball " -Konkretionen ( English cannon-ball concretions are known).
Web links
- Cannonball Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cannonball Cliffs on geographic.org (English)