Murphy Wall
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| location | South Georgia , South Atlantic | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 5 ′ S , 37 ° 25 ′ W | |
The Murphy Wall comprises a series of up to 905 m high mountains with north-south orientation on the north coast of South Georgia . They stretch like a rock wall along the western flank of the Grace Glacier .
The South Georgia Survey conducted surveys during its 1951–1957 campaign. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain range in 1958 after the American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy (1887-1973), who had made observations and collections in the nearby Bay of Isles from 1912 to 1913 for the American Museum of Natural History .
Web links
- Murphy Wall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murphy Wall on geographic.org (English)