Ebony Wall (Antarctica)
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Detroit plateaus | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 55 ′ S , 59 ° 9 ′ W | |
The Ebony Wall ( English for ebony wall ) is a dark and nearly vertical rock wall of 400 m height in the north of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . The 3 km long formation rises at the head end of the Pettus Glacier and forms part of the western terrain of the Detroit Plateau at the beginning of the Trinity Peninsula .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1948 and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Ebony Wall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ebony Wall on geographic.org (English)