High window
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| Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 59 ′ 15 ″ S , 60 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The High Window ( English for high window ) is a notch in a mountain ridge on Deception Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is between Cathedral Crags and Neptunes Window on one side and South East Point on the other.
The from Wales originating geologist Donald Durston Hawkes (* 1934) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey 1961 carried out the mapping. Polish scholars named the notch descriptively in 1999.
Web links
- High Window in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)