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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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 steep, uneven, volcanic bluffs or cliffs, 16 mi long, forming the SW side of the Minna Bluff peninsula, at the S end of Scott Coast, Victoria Land. The height of the cliffs increases from W to E, ranging from 400-600 m above Ross Ice Shelf. 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.
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