Mansergh Wall
| Mansergh Wall | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 6 ′ S , 160 ° 18 ′ E | |
The Mansergh Wall is an icy and 6 km long cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains , it rises in an east-west orientation between the Mansergh snowfield and the head end of the Errant Glacier . The 1600 m high cliff forms part of the watershed between the north-flowing system of the Starshot Glacier including the Mansergh Snowfield and the system of the Nimrod Glacier including the south-flowing Errant Glacier.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 2003 based on the name of the snowfield of the same name. Its namesake is Dennis Mansergh from the University of Auckland , geologist in the 1964-1965 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition .
Web links
- Mansergh Wall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mansergh Wall on geographic.org (English)