Waitabit cliffs
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 31 ′ S , 68 ° 13 ′ W | |
The Waitabit Cliffs are a series of cliffs made of sedimentary rock, which are located on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island directly on George VI Sound and extend over a length of 5 km starting from the mouth of the Mercury Glacier .
It was probably first sighted by the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth during an overflight on November 23, 1935. Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) carried out a rough mapping in 1936 . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out new measurements in 1949. In this strata of the cliffs of two starting points examined what (an eponymous delay English Wait a bit a bit ', waiting ) led.
Web links
- Waitabit Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Waitabit Cliffs on geographic.org (English)