Peden cliffs
| Peden cliffs | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | McDonald Heights | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 57 ′ S , 136 ° 28 ′ W | |
The Peden Cliffs are a series of rock cliffs 10 km in length in the western part of McDonald Heights in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the center, the formation bordering the northern flank of the Garfield Glacier , the coastal Rhodes Icefall, is broken through.
The United States Geological Survey carried out a mapping between 1959 and 1965 using its own survey data and aerial photographs of the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliffs in 1974 after the US ionospheric physicist Irene Carswell Peden (* 1925), who was involved in electrophysical measurements of the ice surface near the Byrd station from 1970 to 1971 .
Web links
- Peden Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peden Cliffs on geographic.org (English)