Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Corner Cliffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Corner 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:
Cliffs rising to c. 500 m S of Saturn Glacier, Alexander Island, George VI Sound. Seen from the air by Ellsworth, 23 Nov.1935; surveyed by FIDS in Nov.1949 and so named because they mark the point where the line of exposed rock of E Alexander Island turns from an N S to an NE SW trend (GBR gaz.1955 & maps 1956, 1974).
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