Skidmore cliff
| Skidmore cliff | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 23 ′ S , 49 ° 26 ′ W | |
The Skidmore Cliff is an irregularly shaped, east-facing, 6 km long and 1185 m high cliff in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it rises at the end of a rock spur extending east from the Saratoga Table .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Donald D. Skidmore, ionospheric physicist at Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter of 1957.
Web links
- Skidmore Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skidmore Cliff on geographic.org (English)