Eyelash Crevasse
| Eyelash Crevasse | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 47 ′ S , 153 ° 0 ′ E | |
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The Eyelash Crevasse (English for eyelash crevasse ) is a 2.5 km long, permanent crevasse in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It is located in the ice of the polar plateau 20 km west of Turnstile Ridge at the northwest end of the Britannia Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names gave it its descriptive name in 2002. It is named after its pattern of ice fissures , which is reminiscent of eyelashes .
Web links
- Eyelash Crevasse in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eyelash Crevasse on geographic.org (English)