Clarkson Cliffs
| Clarkson Cliffs | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 28 ′ S , 27 ° 4 ′ W | |
The Clarkson Cliffs are icy and 1,400 m high cliffs with a few rocky outcrops in the East Antarctic Coatsland . They tower on the northeast end of the Fuchs Dome in the Shackleton Range .
The first aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the cliffs on January 5, 1972 after the British geologist Peter David Clarkson (* 1945) of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who was involved in four research campaigns in the cliffs area from 1968 to 1978 also belonged to the occupation of Halley Station from 1968 to 1970 , headed the Department of Mineralogy , Geology and Geochemistry at BAS from 1976 to 1989 and worked at the Scott Polar Research Institute from 1989 .
Web links
- Clarkson Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clarkson Cliffs on geographic.org (English)