Clemence massif
| Clemence massif | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 11 ′ S , 68 ° 43 ′ E | |
The Clemence massif is an elongated and mostly ice-free rock massif in the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land, 1375 m high, according to Australian data . In the Prince Charles Mountains , it rises with a length between 24 and 28 km and a width of 7 km at the northern end of the Mawson Escarpment on the east side of the Lambert Glacier at a distance of 50 km southeast of the Shaw massif .
Participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions discovered the massif in 1957 while flying over it with a DHC-2 Beaver to take aerial photographs. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Peter Hugh Clemence (* 1925), squadron leader of the Royal Australian Air Force for Antarctic flights from Mawson Station in the same year.
Web links
- Clemence Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clemence Massif on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 332 (English).