Platt cliffs
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| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 ′ S , 58 ° 36 ′ W | |
The Platt- Kliffs ( Polish Cytadela , Citadel ' ) are around 100 m high cliffs on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They loom between Goulden Cove and Monsimet Cove on the banks of Ezcurra Fjord in Admiralty Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1980 after Eric Platt (1926-1948), geologist and station manager of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in Admiralty Bay, who died on November 8, 1948 of exhaustion and hypothermia near the Ternyck Needle and his Dig located near the station on the Basement Peninsula .
Web links
- Platt Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Platt Cliffs on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cytadela in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (accessed July 7, 2020).