Zonda Towers
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 34 ′ S , 68 ° 18 ′ W | |
The Zonda Towers are a 6 km long mountain ridge on the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises in an east-west orientation between the Zonda and Eureka glaciers . The eastern section is characterized by four distinctive and up to 825 m high rock towers .
The United States Navy took aerial photographs of him in 1966. Measurements were made between 1971 and 1972 by the British Antarctic Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 based on the name of the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is the Zonda , a foehn wind in the Argentine Andes .
Web links
- Zonda Towers in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zonda Towers on geographic.org (English)