Hanging Gardens
Coordinates: 60 ° 43 ′ S , 45 ° 36 ′ W
The Hanging Gardens ( English for hanging gardens ) are moss-covered terraces on Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They are located east of Green Gable and extend in a north-easterly direction to Paal Harbor .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey conducted surveys between 1947 and 1950. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them descriptively in 2004 after their appearance.
Web links
- Hanging Gardens in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 692 (English).