Cleft ledge
| Cleft ledge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Wright Valley in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 32 ′ S , 160 ° 51 ′ E | |
The Cleft Ledge (English for column ledge ) is a flattened mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is 1.6 km long, 500 m wide and up to 920 m high. It rises 0.5 km northwest of the Hoffman Ledge between Shaw Trough and Healy Trough in the Wright Valley labyrinth .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him descriptively in 2004. It is named after a north-south oriented valley that splits the mountain ridge in two halves.
Web links
- Cleft Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cleft Ledge on geographic.org (English)