Oona cliff
| Oona cliff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Outback Nunatakker in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 27 ′ S , 160 ° 9 ′ E | |
The Oona-cliff is a north facing cliffs of rock and ice in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the outback nunatak core , it extends northwest of Mount Walton for a length of 6 km.
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the Estonian physicist Hain Oona (* 1945), aurora researcher from the United States Antarctic Research Program at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1968.
Web links
- Oona Kliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oona Cliff on geographic.org (English)