Knezevich skirt
| Knezevich skirt | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mount Takahe | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 112 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Knezevich Rock is a rock formation in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . It rises in the lower section of the north slope of Mount Takahe . The Clausen Glacier ends to the west of this rock .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1975 after Nick Knezevich Jr., an electrical engineer at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1974 .
Web links
- Knezevich rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Knezevich Rock on geographic.org (English)