Turret Cone
| Turret Cone | ||
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| height | 445 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Kyle Hills | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Turret Cone (English for turret cone ) is an approximately 445 m high hill in the west of the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 6.1 km east of Cape Royds and 5 km northeast of Cape Barne .
The Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Turret Cone in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turret Cone on geographic.org (English)