Trilobite promenade
| Trilobite promenade | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Horlick Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 49 ′ S , 116 ° 21 ′ W | |
The Trilobite Promenade ( English for Trilobite Walkway ) is a narrow, steep-walled mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains , it extends 3 km west of Lackey Ridge , from which it is separated by a 100 m steep snow slope.
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him. It is named after the fossilized crawl tracks of trilobites , which New Zealand teams discovered here between 1979 and 1980 and examined more closely between 1983 and 1984.
Web links
- Trilobite Promenade in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)