The Monument (Antarctica)
| The Monument | ||
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| height | 495 m | |
| location | Red Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 43 '34 " S , 57 ° 52' 58" W | |
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The Monument (English for The monument is) a 495 m high rock column on the West Antarctic island Red Iceland in Prince Gustav Channel .
The first sighting goes back to participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them in 1945 and named them descriptive.
Web links
- The Monument in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Monument on geographic.org (English)