The Organ Pipes
| The Organ Pipes | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 37 ′ S , 52 ° 42 ′ W | |
The Organ Pipes (English for the organ pipes ) are distinctive and 1900 m high rock cliffs in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains they rise up in the Dufek Massif south of the Cairn Ridge on the northwest side of the Jaeger Table .
The cliffs were given their descriptive name by the US geologist Arthur B. Ford , head of a team of the United States Geological Survey , who worked in the Pensacola Mountains from 1978 to 1979.
Web links
- The Organ Pipes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Organ Pipes on geographic.org (English)