Maiden Castle (Antarctica)
| Maiden Castle | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Allan Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Maiden Castle (English for Jungfrauenburg ) is a striking rock formation in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Allan Hills , it towers east of Halle Flat .
It was explored in 1964 by a team working in the Allan Hills as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program . She named it after Maiden Castle , a hill fort in the English county of Dorset .
Web links
- Maiden Castle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maiden Castle on geographic.org (English)