Eliza Cone
| Eliza Cone | ||
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| Waters | Somow Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Balleny Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 55 ′ S , 163 ° 12 ′ E | |
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The Eliza Cone is a 70 m high cliff with a rock gate in the group of the East Antarctic Balleny Islands . It is located 1.5 km west of the southern end of Buckle Iceland situated Cape McNab .
Together with the neighboring Scott Cone , the island was named after the schooner Eliza Scott , with whom the British navigator John Balleny discovered the Balleny Islands in February 1839 as part of his Antarctic expedition (1838–1839).
Web links
- Eliza Cone in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eliza Cone on geographic.org (English)