Haggits Pillar
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 24 ′ S , 179 ° 55 ′ W | |
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Haggits Pillar is a 65 m high surf pillar in the Southern Ocean . It rises 170 m west of Scott Island and 504 km north-northeast of Cape Adare on the north coast of the Victoria Land in Antarctica .
Captain William Colbeck (1871–1930), commander of the morning rescue ship on the British Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) under the direction of British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , discovered him in December 1902. The name is first recorded on a map that the British polar explorer George Mulock had made during the same research trip. The further naming background has not been passed down.
Web links
- Haggits Pillar in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haggits Pillar on geographic.org (English)