Platt Cliffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Platt 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. 100m between Goulden Cove and Monsimet Cove, Ezcurra Inlet, Admiralty Bay, King George Island, following geological work by BAS, 1975-76, were named after Eric Platt (1926-48), FIDS Base Leader and geologist, "Admiralty Bay", February-November 1948, who died from exhaustion and exposure in the vicinity of Ternyck Needle while returning from an excursion to Penguin Island, 8 November 1948, and whose grave is marked by a cross near the British station on Keller Peninsula (APC, 1980, p.5). Cytadela, so called by PAE after the Warsaw Citadel, a sacred place of Polish resistance against invaders (Birkenmajer, 1979b, map Fig.3, p.3).
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