Norton Crag
| Norton Crag | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Halfway nunataks in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 21 ′ S , 161 ° 5 ′ E | |
The Norton Crag ( English for Norton rock ) is a 1250 m high cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the northeast end of the halfway nunatak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1994 after the US cartographer William L. Norton of the United States Geological Survey , a member of the satellite geodesy team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1991.
Web links
- Norton Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Norton Crag on geographic.org (English)