Noxon cliff
| Noxon cliff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Asgard Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 32 ' S , 163 ° 5' E | |
The Noxon-Kliff is a cliff with an east-west orientation in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range , it looms at the southern end of Flint Ridge . On the northern flank of the Commonwealth Glacier, between 50 and 150 m of the total height protrude above the level of the surrounding ice masses.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 after John Franklin Noxon III. (1928–1985), a pioneer in the research of stratospheric gases, especially nitrogen dioxide , using spectroscopy in the visible wavelength range .
Web links
- Noxon Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Noxon Cliff on geographic.org (English)