Colosseum Cliff
| Colosseum Cliff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Asgard Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 36 ′ S , 161 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Colosseum Cliff (English for Coliseum Cliff ) is a strikingly banded cliff in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range , it looms between the Sykes Glacier and the Plane Table .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave the descriptive name based on a Roman coliseum .
Web links
- Colosseum Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Colosseum Cliff on geographic.org (English)