Haslum Crag
| Haslum Crag | ||
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| height | 170 m | |
| location | Snow Hill Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 21 '32 " S , 56 ° 57' 23" W | |
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The Haslum Crag is a distinctive and 170 m high cliff on Snow Hill Iceland south of the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km north of the station nunatak .
The first sighting goes to participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903). The expedition leader Otto Nordenskjöld misleadingly named the rock as basalt tip . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee changed this name in 1957 after the surveys and geological surveys carried out by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1952. The new namesake is the Norwegian sailor Hans Joachim Haslum (1856-1943), who was a member of the crew of the ship Antarctic on the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.
Web links
- Haslum Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haslum Crag on geographic.org (English)