Danger slopes
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 Map of Ross Island with the Danger Slopes (bottom left) |
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 49 ′ S , 166 ° 40 ′ E | |
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The Danger Slopes (loosely translated: Danger steep slopes ) are an ice slope on the Antarctic Ross Island . This is located immediately south of Knob Point on the west side of the Hut Point Peninsula . It ends vertically in Erebus Bay .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott made the descriptive naming after the sailor George Vince (1879-1902) lost his footing in flat fur boots on March 11, 1902 and when he fell disappeared into the sea without a trace.
Web links
- Danger Slopes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Danger Slopes on geographic.org (English)