Zigzag bluff
| Zigzag bluff | ||
|---|---|---|
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Herbert Range ( Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains ) | |
|
||
| Coordinates | 85 ° 18 ′ S , 163 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Zigzag Bluff (from English zig-zag 'zigzag' ) is a cliff on the Amundsen coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . At the foot of the Herbert Range of the Königin Maud Mountains it rises 8 km west of the mouth of the Axel Heiberg Glacier in the Ross Ice Shelf .
The first sighting probably goes back to the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen during his South Pole expedition (1910-1912) in 1911. Participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) carried out a rough mapping. The southern group of a campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition carried out from 1961 to 1962 named it after the distinctive folding of the marble rock on the cliff in a zigzag pattern .
Web links
- Zigzag Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zigzag Bluff on geographic.org (English)