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 (2f)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A line of E-W cliffs, 5 mi long, standing between Grotto Glacier and Jupiter Glacier, 7 mi west of Ablation Point, in eastern Alexander Island. Mapped from trimetrogon air photography taken by RARE, 1947-48, and from survey by FIDS, 1948-50. Named by UK-APC from association with Jupiter Glacier after Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Italian astronomer who discovered the four named satellites of Jupiter.
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