Dickson Pillar
Dickson Pillar | ||
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View from the east of Possession Island with Dickson Pillar (left) | ||
Waters | Ross Sea | |
Archipelago | Possession Islands | |
Geographical location | 71 ° 54 ′ S , 171 ° 11 ′ E | |
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Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula and Possession Island (bottom right) with the Dickson Pillar in front |
Dickson Pillar is a rock pillar in the Ross Sea off the northeast coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the group of Possession Islands southeast of the Adare Peninsula , it rises immediately south of Possession Island .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1958 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1969 after Paul Bevis Dickson (* 1930), photographer of the VX-6 squadron during the Flight on January 18, 1958, during which this geographical object was recorded, among other things.
Web links
- Dickson Pillar in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dickson Pillar on geographic.org (English)