Name details

McIntosh Cliffs

McIntosh Cliffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

McIntosh Cliffs  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113881

Feature type: Cliff (2f)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A line of steep, uneven, volcanic bluffs or cliffs, extending along nearly the entirety of the south side of Minna Bluff, at the south end of Scott Coast, Victoria Land. The height of the cliffs increases from west to east, ranging from 400m to 800m in above Ross Ice Shelf.

Named For

Named by US- ACAN (1999) after William C. McIntosh, Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, a member of the 1982 NMIMT field party that carried out the first geological mapping of Minna Bluff, additional field work at Mount Erebus, 1977-78, 1984-85, Mount Discovery and Mason Spur, 1983-84, Mount Murphy, 1985, Executive Committee Range, 1989-90, Crary Mountains, 1992-93.

Location

Latitude:
78° 32' 00.0" S
-78.53333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
166° 24' 00.0" E
166.40000°
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Altitude:
774 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 18_33 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
4-Nov-1999

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