Free Escarpment
| Free Escarpment | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 3 ′ S , 49 ° 3 ′ W | |
The Franko Escarpment is a mostly snow-covered step in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it extends in a north-south orientation over a length of 6 km and forms the northeastern edge of the Lexington Table .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1979 after Stephen J. Franko of the National Science Foundation , who from 1967 was responsible for the contracts in support of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Franko Escarpment in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Franko Escarpment on geographic.org (English)