What a crag
| What a crag | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Willett Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 17 ′ 8 ″ S , 160 ° 36 ′ 37 ″ O | |
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The Welch Crag is a steep, rugged and about 1,500 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Willett Range , it looms in the northeast part of the McSaveney Trail .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after the geologist Kathleen A. Welch of the University of Alabama , who was involved in eleven field research campaigns of the United States Antarctic Program in the Antarctic Dry Valleys between 1994 and 2004 .
Web links
- Welch Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Welch Crag on geographic.org (English)