Galileo cliffs
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 46 ′ S , 68 ° 43 ′ W | |
The Galileo cliffs are 1,300 m high and 8 km long cliffs in the east of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise 11 km from Ablation Point between the Grotto and Jupiter glaciers .
Trimetrogon recordings by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1948 and 1950 were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1974 based on the name of the Jupiter Glacier after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), the discoverer of four moons of the planet Jupiter ( Io , Europa , Ganymede and Callisto ).
Web links
- Galileo Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Galileo Cliffs on geographic.org (English)