Lewis cliff
| Lewis cliff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 17 ′ S , 161 ° 5 ′ E | |
 1965 map showing Lewis Cliff in the north half |
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The Lewis cliff is a 20 km long and irregularly shaped cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It extends south of Mount Achernar on the western flank of the Walcott Firnfeld .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Richard E. Lewis, an aircraft electrical engineer in the United States Navy on Operation Deep Freeze from 1956 to 1957.
Web links
- Lewis Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lewis Cliff on geographic.org (English)