Galileo Cliffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Galileo Cliffs (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cliff
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to c. 1300m between Grotto Glacier and Jupiter Glacier, Alexander Island, George VI Sound, were photographed from the air by RARE and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; following surveys by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1961-73, named in association with Jupiter Glacier after Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer who discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter (APC, 1975, p.3; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/10, 2-DOS 1984).
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