Red Crag
| Red Crag | ||
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| location | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 59 ′ 15 ″ S , 60 ° 32 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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The Red Crag is a rocky outcrop of red lava rock on Deception Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises east of the High Window and Whalers Bay between Cathedral Crags and South East Point .
The British geologist Donald Durston Hawkes (* 1934) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1961. Polish scientists named it in 1999 after its reddish appearance.
Web links
- Red Crag in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)