Cathedral Rocks
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 51 ′ S , 162 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Cathedral Rocks ( English for Kathedralfelsen ) are a series of four steep rock cliffs in East Antarctic Victoria Land , which pierced through short glacier, surrounded by scharfgratigen peaks. The cliffs extend for eight miles along the southern flank of the Ferrar Glacier and form part of the northern shoulder of the Royal Society Range .
They were discovered and descriptively named on December 7, 1902 by the British polar explorer Albert Armitage , deputy expedition leader under Robert Falcon Scott on the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904).
Web links
- Cathedral Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cathedral Rocks on geographic.org (English)