Vashka Crag
| Vashka Crag | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Cruzen Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 19 ′ S , 161 ° 3 ′ E | |
The Vashka Crag is a roughly 1,600 m high and abruptly sloping cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the eastern end of The Fortress formation , the plateau consisting of a series of ridges and basins that occupies the western half of the Cruzen Range on the north side of the Barwick Valley in the Antarctic Dry Valleys area.
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1959 to 1960 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named the cliff based on the name of the nearby Lake Vashka . Both objects are named after a sled dog from the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) under the direction of polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Vashka Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vashka Crag on geographic.org (English)