Cathedral Crags

Cathedral Crags
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height	140  m
location	Deception Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	62 ° 59 ′ 22 ″  S , 60 ° 33 ′ 5 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 59 ′ 22 ″  S , 60 ° 33 ′ 5 ″  W

The Cathedral Crags (English for cathedral cliffs ) are a 140  m high, rocky and ice-free hill with cliffs on the side slopes in the southeast of Deception Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises on the peninsula between Neptunes Window and Fildes Point . The Green Crag belongs to him .

For whalers, this formation was known as The Convent or Weathercock Hill before 1930 . Its current descriptive name has been established by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey since at least 1953 .

Web links

• Cathedral Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cathedral Crags on geographic.org (English)