Devils Thumb (Antarctica)
| Devils Thumb | ||
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| height | 245 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Devils Ridge , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Devils Thumb (English for "thumb of the devil") is a 245 m high and rocky hill on the Scott coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises in the center of Devils Ridge immediately west of Granite Harbor .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped and named him.
Web links
- Devils Thumb in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Devils Thumb on geographic.org (English)