East Groin
| East Groin | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Asgard Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 39 ′ S , 160 ° 57 ′ E | |
The East Groin (English for East Ridge ) is a narrow mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the south side of the Asgard Range , it forms the east face of Flory Cirque .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him descriptively in 1976 based on the naming of West Groin , which got its name from participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- East Groin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- East Groin on geographic.org (English)