The Tusk
| The Tusk | ||
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| height | 460 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Tusk (English for the tusk ) is a striking, pointed and 460 m high mountain made of white marble rock in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Dufek coast, it rises 2.5 km south of Mount Henson in the eastern part of the Mayer Crags on the western flank of the mouth of the Liv Glacier in the Ross Ice Shelf .
The southern group of a campaign carried out by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition from 1963 to 1964 gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- The Tusk in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Tusk on geographic.org (English)