Organ Pipe Cliffs
Organ Pipe Cliffs | |
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Organ Pipe Cliffs | |
| Coordinates: 68°25′S 149°4′E / 68.417°S 149.067°E | |
| Location | George V Land |
| Offshore water bodies | Southern Ocean |
| Area | |
| • Total | Antarctica |
Organ Pipe Cliffs is a line of coastal cliffs in the form of palisades of columnar dolerite overlooking the sea to the west of Cape Wild. Discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914) under Douglas Mawson, who named them because of the similarity of the rock structure to organ pipes.[1]
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References
- ^ This article incorporates public domain material from "Organ Pipe Cliffs". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.