Hall cliff
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 59 ′ S , 68 ° 37 ′ W | |
The Hall cliff is a 1.5 km-long cliff of sandstone on the east side of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It rises 1.5 km west of the Citadel Bastion on the southern flank of the Saturn Glacier .
Participants in the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) mapped the cliff using Trimetrogon aerial photographs. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1948 and 1950. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after the American astronomer Asaph Hall (1829–1907), who discovered the two Martian moons Phobos and Deimos .
Web links
- Hall Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hall Cliff on geographic.org (English)