Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Coalseam Cliffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Coalseam 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. 2500m N of Mount Faraway, Theron Mountains, were surveyed by TAE in 1956-57 and so named from the coal seam found there, after a landing by Otter aircraft in January 1957 (APC, 1962, p.9; DOS 610 sheet W 79 28/30, 1963).
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