McKay Cliffs
| McKay Cliffs | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| part of | Geologists Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 19 ′ S , 156 ° 0 ′ E | |
The McKay Cliffs are a 30 km long series of cliffs in the Australian Antarctic Territory . They form the north face of the Geologists Range in the Transantarctic Mountains .
The northern group of a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , which they also discovered, named them after Alexander McKay (1841-1917), a pioneer of New Zealand geology .
Web links
- McKay Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McKay Cliffs on geographic.org (English)