Koci cliffs
| Koci cliffs | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 4 ′ S , 161 ° 36 ′ E | |
The Koci Cliffs are 2,424 m high and arched cliffs in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They rise 1.5 km south of the Colwell massif in a west-southwest-east-northeast orientation along the head end of the Waddington Glacier and mark the watershed between glaciers that flow north to the Ferrar Glacier and south to the Skelton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1994 after the US geophysicist Bruce Raymond Koci (1943-2010) from the University of Alaska Fairbanks , an expert on ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica , who advised on the construction of the Antarctic Muon between 1993 and 2001 And Neutrino Detector Array at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Koci Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Koci Cliffs on geographic.org (English)