Quest cliffs
| Quest cliffs | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| part of | Geologists Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 36 ′ S , 155 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Quest Cliffs are a series of steep, east-facing cliffs in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Geologists Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, they rise up immediately north of the The Slot glacier .
The northern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962) sighted the cliffs and named them. It is named after the research ship Quest , which was used on the Quest expedition (1921–1922) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Quest Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quest Cliffs on geographic.org (English)