Magsig Rampart
| Magsig Rampart | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 54 ′ S , 142 ° 0 ′ W | |
Magsig Rampart is a rock face in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it rises on the west flank of the Stanford Plateau along the Watson Escarpment . It rises 400 m above the level of the Leverett Glacier on its eastern flank and near its head end.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the rock face in 2006 after Russell Magsig, a mechanic on the Siple station in the Antarctic winter of 1983, who also participated in 16 Antarctic summer campaigns at Williams Field , McMurdo Station, and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and had participated in the so-called South Pole Traverse Project as part of the United States Antarctic Program between 2002 and 2005 .
Web links
- Magsig Rampart in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Magsig Rampart on geographic.org (English)