Hamilton Cliff
| Hamilton Cliff | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Thiel Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 1 ′ S , 90 ° 18 ′ W | |
The Hamilton Cliff is a striking, over 600 m high rock cliff in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Thiel Mountains , it forms the northeastern foothills of the Ford massif .
It was named at the suggestion of geologist Arthur B. Ford and cartographer Peter Frank Bermel , who jointly led a team from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to explore the Thiel Mountains between 1960 and 1961 . It is named after the American geologist Warren B. Hamilton (1925–2018), who as representative of the USGS was responsible for geological studies in the Antarctic dry valleys between 1958 and 1959 .
Web links
- Hamilton Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hamilton Cliff on geographic.org (English)