Tophet bastion
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| location | Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 42 ′ S , 45 ° 18 ′ W | |
The Tophet Bastion is a striking, icy and 1.5 km long cliff with an upstream debris cone on the south coast of Coronation Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located 1.5 km east of Saunders Point .
A rough mapping was done by participants in the British Discovery Investigations in 1933. The name was given by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey after a survey from 1948 to 1949. The name is derived from the Canaanite cult site Tofet from the Tanach .
Web links
- Tophet Bastion in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tophet Bastion on geographic.org (English)