Sheriff cliffs
| Sheriff cliffs | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 24 ′ S , 50 ° 34 ′ W | |
The Sheriff's Cliffs are 1,750 m high cliffs in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, they tower west of Gabbro Crest on the southeastern edge of the Saratoga Table .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1979 after the geologist Steven D. Sheriff of Western Washington University , who worked in the area from 1978 to 1979.
Web links
- Sheriff Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sheriff Cliffs on geographic.org (English)