Sandford Cliffs
| Sandford Cliffs | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Elizabeth Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 54 ′ S , 159 ° 17 ′ E | |
The Sandford Cliffs are prominent and mostly un-iced cliffs in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They represent the western boundary of the Peletier Plateau in the Queen Elizabeth Range .
The New Zealand Southern Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named him after Herbert Neil Sandford (* 1930), who was involved in the construction of Scott Base and who had been part of the winter occupation there in 1957 as part of the International Geophysical Year .
Web links
- Sandford Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sandford Cliffs on geographic.org (English)