The handle
| The handle | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E | |
The handle (English for the handle ) is an elongated solid in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the northwestern part of the Royal Society Range , it rises 2.5 km southwest of Table Mountain .
Alan Sherwood, head of the New Zealand Geological Survey campaign, which ran from 1987 to 1988 , gave the massif its descriptive name. In its size and relative geographical position to a neighboring mountain ridge , the massif is reminiscent of the handle of a sickle .
Web links
- The handle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Handle on geographic.org (English)