Huie cliffs
| Huie cliffs | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 19 ′ S , 51 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Huie Cliffs are steep and 1700 m high cliffs in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains they tower above the May Valley and form the northwestern edge of the Saratoga Table .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1979 after the geologist Carl Huie, who worked for the United States Geological Survey in the Pensacola Mountains from 1978 to 1979 .
Web links
- Huie Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Huie Kliffs on geographic.org (English)