Lachman Crags
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 52 ′ S , 57 ° 50 ′ W | |
The Lachman Crags are a 645 m high terrain step with north-south orientation on the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It extends over a length of 8 km at a distance of 5 km south-southwest of Cape Lachman .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named it in the course of a survey in 1945 after the cape of the same name. Its namesake is J. Lachman, a sponsor of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld .
Web links
- Lachman Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lachman Crags on geographic.org (English)