Painted Cliffs
| Painted Cliffs | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Elizabeth Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 50 ′ S , 162 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Painted Cliffs ( English for painted cliffs ) are a series of irregularly shaped cliffs in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range , they extend from Mount Picciotto in a southwestern direction and mark the southeastern edge of the Prince Andrew Plateau .
Participants in a campaign that ran from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition gave the formation a descriptive name. It is named after colored sediments and corresponding igneous rock bands on the front of the cliffs.
Web links
- Painted Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Painted Cliffs on geographic.org (English)