Landon Promontory
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 13 ′ S , 69 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Landon Promontory is a sweeping, dome-shaped and icy promontory on the coast of the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is 5 miles south of the Foley Promontory on the west side of the Amery Ice Shelf .
The foothills were mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1936. It was visited in 1962 by a team from the same research series led by Australian geodesist David Robert Carstens (* 1934). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Ian Hamilton Landon-Smith (* 1937), a glaciologist at Mawson Station in 1962 and a member of this team.
Web links
- Landon Promontory in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Landon Promontory on geographic.org (English)