Flagstone Bench
| Flagstone Bench | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 51 ′ S , 68 ° 12 ′ E | |
Flagstone Bench ( English for stone slab Bank is) a big, of fragments of platy sandstone -strewn, rocky terrain level in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Prince Charles Mountains , it flanks the southeastern shores of Radok Lake and Beaver Lake .
Participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions carried out a survey on site in 1957. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) gave the formation the name appropriate to its appearance.
Web links
- Flagstone Bench in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flagstone Bench on geographic.org (English)