North Cliff
| North Cliff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 17 ′ S , 170 ° 15 ′ E | |
The North Cliff ( English for north cliff ) is a towering cliff on the Pennell coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It towers east of North Beach near Cape Adare on the Adare Peninsula .
The northern group around the British polar explorer Victor Campbell named it in the course of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- North Cliff in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)