Williams Cliff
| Williams Cliff | ||
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| part of | Mount Erebus | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 35 ′ S , 166 ° 47 ′ E | |
The Williams-cliff is a striking rock cliff on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 10 km east of Cape Barne from the icy south-western slopes of Mount Erebus .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, mapped it and called it profanely as Bold Cliff ( English for massive cliff ). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names , however, named it in 1964 after Richard Thomas Williams (1933–1956) of the United States Navy , who died on January 6, 1956 in the course of Operation Deep Freeze , after the one he drove and the 28th ton tracked vehicle company Caterpillar by too thin ice on McMurdo Sound was broken.
Web links
- Williams Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Williams Cliff on geographic.org (English)