Mantell Screes
| Mantell Screes | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Shackleton Range | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 38 ′ S , 24 ° 25 ′ W | |
The Mantell Screes are around 1500 m high and scree ( English screes ) surrounded rocky outcrop in the East Antarctic Coats Land . In the Shackleton Range, it rises northwest of Arkell Cirque on the north side of the Read Mountains .
The United States Navy took aerial photographs of this rock spur in 1967. The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the British doctor and geologist Gideon Mantell (1790-1852), who discovered the first fossil of an Iguanodon .
Web links
- Mantell Screes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mantell Screes on geographic.org (English)