Spincloud Heights
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 View from Gaul Cove to the face of Spincloud Heights (right: mouth of Shoesmith Glacier ) |
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| location | Horseshoe Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 50 ′ S , 67 ° 9 ′ W | |
The spinning cloud Heights (English for spray cloud heights ) are hills on Horseshoe Iceland in Marguerite Bay before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They tower on the north flank of Shoesmith Glacier .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out their measurements between 1955 and 1957. They named it after the spray mist that occurs when the weather is appropriate and that announces a storm here .
Web links
- Spincloud Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spincloud Heights on geographic.org (English)