Gargoyle turrets
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 10 ′ S , 161 ° 39 ′ E | |
The Gargoyle Turrets (English for gargoyles towers ) are three distinctive and approximately 1300 m high rock pillars of sandstone in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the north-western Saint Johns Range, they tower 2.5 km southwest of Queer Mountain from steep cliffs above the Miller Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it so because the rock pillars in the upper section by wind erosion have created projections of gargoyles ( English gargoyle remember).
Web links
- Gargoyle Turrets in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gargoyle Turrets on geographic.org (English)