Forester Cliffs
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 0 ′ S , 57 ° 35 ′ W | |
The Förster-Kliffs are 3 km long and 550 m high cliffs with an east-west extension in the north of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . They rise east-northeast of Stark Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1987 after the German geologist Reinhard Förster (1935-1987) from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , who was part of a team from the British Antarctic Survey to explore this area between 1985 and 1986.
Web links
- Forester Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Forester Cliffs on geographic.org (English)