Tour de Pise
| Tour de Pise | ||
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 Tour de Pise, 1993 ( anaglyph picture ) |
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| height | 27 m | |
| location | Rostand Island , Géologie Archipelago , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 140 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Tour de Pise (French for [Leaning] Tower of Pisa ) is a 27 m high and isolated rock dome that pierces the ice masses in the northwest of the Rostand Island in the Géologie archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland .
Participants in a French Antarctic expedition mapped the hill in 1951 and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Tour de Pise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tour de Pise on geographic.org (English)