Gabbro Crest
| Gabbro Crest | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 23 ′ S , 50 ° 22 ′ W | |
Gabbro Crest is a 1750 m high mountain ridge in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it looms between the Sheriff's Cliffs and the Vigen Cliffs on the southeastern edge of the Saratoga Table .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1979 at the suggestion of the US geologist Arthur B. Ford of the United States Geological Survey . It is named after the rock gabbro , from which the Forrestal Range mainly consists.
Web links
- Gabbro Crest in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gabbro Crest on geographic.org (English)