Faulkner Escarpment
| Faulkner Escarpment | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 12 ′ S , 156 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Faulkner Escarpment is an ice-covered, 50 km long and 3000 m high step in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it forms the eastern end of the Nilsen Plateau and the Fram Mesa with north-south orientation .
The formation was discovered in December 1934 by the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) led part of the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named the step after Charles James Faulkner Jr. (1887-1953), chief adviser to the meat processing company Armor & Company in Chicago , who contributed to the supply of the expedition.
Web links
- Faulkner Escarpment in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Faulkner Escarpment on geographic.org (English)