The Defile
| The Defile | |||
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| Compass direction | Northeast | southwest | |
| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Taylor Valley , Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Defile (English for Der Hohlweg ) is a narrow and ice-free gap in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Taylor Valley , it lies between the mouth of the Suess Glacier and the rubble-covered walnut bar .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, mapped this mountain pass and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- The Defile in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Defile on geographic.org (English)