North West Cornice
| North West Cornice | ||
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| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 4 ′ S , 73 ° 26 ′ E | |
North West Cornice ( English for northwest ledge ) is a narrow and rocky mountain ridge on the island of Heard in the southern Indian Ocean . It extends from Big Ben in a north-westerly direction and ends at the Schmidt Glacier in the north-western part of the island.
Participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions carried out surveys and descriptive naming in 1948.
Web links
- North West Cornice in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- North West Cornice on geographic.org (English)