Tarbuck Crag
| Tarbuck Crag | ||
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| height | 140 m | |
| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Vestfold Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Tarbuck Crag is a 140 m high ledge with a steep south and east flank on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It belongs to a group of three rocky outcrops around 1.2 km southwest of Club Lake in the Vestfold Mountains .
Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) set up a tellurometer station here in 1969 to measure the Prince Charles Mountains . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the ledge in 1971 after John W. Tarbuck, a cook at Wilkes Station in 1965 and Davis Station in 1969, and a participant in the 1967 ANARE campaign.
Web links
- Tarbuck Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tarbuck Crag on geographic.org (English)