Cave Landing
| Cave Landing | ||
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| location | Ardery Island , Windmill Islands , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 23 ′ S , 110 ° 27 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Vincennes Bay | |
Cave Landing is an ice formation on the coast of Ardery Island in the Windmill Archipelago of East Antarctica . It is not far from the Cave Ravine and offers an accessible landing stage in the Antarctic spring and summer.
Its discoverer in 1961 was the Australian doctor Mervyn Noel Orton (1920-1983), who was working on the Wilkes ward at that time . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the glacier tongue based on the descriptive name of the Cave Ravine.
Web links
- Cave Landing in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cave Landing on geographic.org (English)