Kendall Terrace
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| location | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 54 ′ S , 60 ° 41 ′ W | |
 Map of Deception Island with Kendall Terrace (top left) |
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The Kendall Terrace is a unvereiste and volcanic ash covered terrace on Deception Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located on the northwest side of the island.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1957 after Lieutenant Edward Nicholas Kendall (1800-1845) of the Royal Navy , who carried out the first survey of Deception Island between January and March 1829 during the Antarctic voyage of HMS Chanticleer (1827-1831) .
Web links
- Kendall Terrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kendall Terrace on geographic.org (English)