Corner cliffs
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 1 ′ S , 68 ° 27 ′ W | |
The Corner Cliffs are rock cliffs with two flattened peaks 2.5 km apart on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise just south of the Saturn Glacier in the southeastern part of the island. To the northwest lies the Hodgson Lake, which is constantly covered by an almost 4 m thick layer of ice .
The two rocky mountain ridges that form the north-western shoulder of this formation were sighted and photographed for the first time by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on his Antarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The aerial photographs were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the cliffs in 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them on March 31, 1955 because they represent a landmark in which the rock formations bend from a north-south orientation to the south-west.
Web links
- Corner Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Corner Cliffs on geographic.org (English)