Lizards Foot
Lizards Foot | ||
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height | 570 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Lizards Foot (English for lizard foot ) is a 570 m high rock spur in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the eastern end of the Saint Johns Range .
Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), Frank Debenham , Tryggve Gran and Robert Forde (1875-1959) discovered him while exploring the Wilson Piedmont Glacier as part of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Lizards Foot in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lizards Foot on geographic.org (English)