Kuiper Scarp
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 26 ′ S , 68 ° 26 ′ W | |
The Kuiper Scarp is an 810 m high step on the east side of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises with east-west orientation along the southern flank of the Uranus glacier .
Aerial photographs of the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth from November 23, 1935 were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the terrain step in 1974 based on the naming of the Uranus glacier after the American astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905-1973), who discovered the Uranus moon Miranda in 1948 .
Web links
- Kuiper Scarp in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kuiper Scarp on geographic.org (English)