Pettigrew Scarp
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| location | Annenkov Island in the South Atlantic | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 30 ′ S , 37 ° 4 ′ W | |
Pettigrew Scarp is an almost 800 m long step in the south of Annenkov Island off the south coast of South Georgia . It is bounded in the southwest by a mountain ridge and in the northeast by three rock needles .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after Timothy Hugh Pettigrew (* 1949), geologist of the British Antarctic Survey , who worked on Annenkov Island from 1972 to 1973.
Web links
- Pettigrew Scarp in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pettigrew Scarp on geographic.org (English)