Schirmacher massif
| Schirmacher massif | ||
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| height | 1675 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 18 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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The Schirmacher Massif is an island-like, 1675 m high massif on the Black Coast in the east of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km west of the Rowley massif at the head end of Odom Inlet and is surrounded by the Rankin and Cline glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the massif in 1976 after Eberhard Georg Schirmacher (1928–2013), topography engineer for the United States Geological Survey on two expeditions to the Lassiter coast (1969–1970 and 1974–1975).
Web links
- Schirmacher Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schirmacher Massif on geographic.org (English)