Succession Cliffs
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 10 ′ S , 68 ° 15 ′ W | |
The Succession Cliffs (from English succession , sequence, sequence ' ) are a series of steep cliffs 2.5 km in length on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise up immediately south of the confluence of the Pluto Glacier in the George VI Sound .
They were probably first seen by the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. Ellsworth made aerial photographs of the coastline in the vicinity of the cliffs. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out a rough survey in 1936 . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) refined this in 1948. The FIDS named it after the sequence of mineral paragenesis in the rock of the cliffs.
Web links
- Succession Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Succession Cliffs on geographic.org (English)