Cap Cliffs
| Cap Cliffs | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Kar plateaus in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 56 ′ S , 162 ° 22 ′ E | |
The Cap Cliffs are 600 m high and 8.8 km long rocky cliffs on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They form the southern edge of the Kar plateau .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1999 after the German botanist Ludger Kappen from the University of Kiel , who had carried out extensive studies on the ecophysiology of lichens in the area around Cape Geology .
Web links
- Caps Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cap Cliffs on geographic.org