Hollingworth Cliffs
| Hollingworth Cliffs | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Herbert Mountains , Shackleton Range | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 25 ′ S , 25 ° 31 ′ W | |
The Hollingworth Cliffs are a series of cliffs in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Herbert Mountains of the Shackleton Range they tower south of Mount Absalom .
The United States Navy took the first aerial photographs in 1967. The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the British geologist Sydney Ewart Hollingworth (1899-1966) from University College London , an expert on the geology of the Pleistocene in north-west England .
Web links
- Hollingworth Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hollingworth Cliffs on geographic.org (English)