The Turret (Big Razorback Island)
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| location | Big Razorback Island ( Dellbridge Islands , Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 41 ′ 3 ″ S , 166 ° 30 ′ 14 ″ E | |
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The Turret ( English for The Wall turrets ) is a distinctive rock formation from trachyte on the Antarctic Ross Archipelago belonging Big Razorback Iceland . It rises on the western end of the island.
The Australian geologist Frank Debenham , participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , named it descriptively.
Web links
- The Turret in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)