McIntosh Cliffs
| McIntosh Cliffs | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 32 ' S , 166 ° 24' E | |
The McIntosh Cliffs are a series of steep and uneven cliffs of volcanic origin on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They extend over a length of 26 km on the southwest side of Minna Bluff . Its height varies between 400 m in the west and 600 m at its eastern end.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1999 after the US-American geologist William C. McIntosh from New Mexico Institute of Mines and Technology in Socorro , who in 1982 at the first geological mapping part of Minna Bluff and in other campaigns in Antarctica worked .
Web links
- McIntosh Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McIntosh Cliffs on geographic.org (English)