The ultimate crag
| The ultimate crag | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| part of | LeMay Range | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 58 ′ S , 68 ° 54 ′ W | |
The Nonplus Crag is a striking and 1250 m high cliff in the eastern center of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . In the LeMay Range , it towers near the head of the Jupiter Glacier .
Aerial photographs taken by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935 were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping purposes . The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out a new mapping in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee descriptively named it in 1961 after the puzzlement the FIDS had in identifying this object.
Web links
- Nonplus Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nonplus Crag on geographic.org (English)