First facet
| First facet | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 9 ′ S , 162 ° 30 ′ E | |
The First Facet ( English for First Facet ) is a steep and ice-free cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises to the east of the Second Facet and together with it forms the north face of the Debenham Glacier .
The cliff was mapped and named descriptively during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- First Facet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- First Facet on geographic.org (English)