Orton Cave
Orton Cave
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Location: | Ardery Island , Windmill Islands | |
Geographic location: |
66 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Orton Cave is a cave on the Ardery island in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It is located on the west wall of the Cave Ravine .
Mervyn Noel Orton (1920-1983), a doctor on Wilkes Ward , discovered it in 1961. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after him.
Web links
- Orton Cave in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Orton Cave on geographic.org (English)