Salmon Cliff
| Salmon Cliff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 22 ′ S , 170 ° 6 ′ E | |
 Topographic map of the Hallett Peninsula (center right) with the Salmon cliff, which is triangular when viewed from above |
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The Salmon cliff is a rocky cliff at the Borchgrevink Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is one of the three striking cliffs south of Seabee Hook on the west side of the Hallett Peninsula , along with Roberts and Shear Cliffs .
Participants in a campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , which lasted from 1957 to 1958, named it after the British-New Zealand physicist Kenneth James Salmon (* 1926), scientific director of the Hallett Station in 1958.
Web links
- Salmon Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Salmon Cliff on geographic.org (English)