Gale Escarpment
| Gale Escarpment | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Grove Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 55 ′ S , 75 ° 23 ′ E | |
The Gale Escarpment is a step in the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . The northwest-oriented formation extends in the Grove Mountains east of Mount Harding and Wilson Ridge .
The terrain level was mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1960 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Australian hydrograph D'Arcy Thomas Gale (* 1911), who was significantly involved in the creation of Australian maps of Antarctica .
Web links
- Gale Escarpment in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gale Escarpment on geographic.org (English)