Feature Name (see definition): Bermel Escarpment

Feature Class (see definition): Cliff

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 1278

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 85° 17' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 089° 30' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -85.2833333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -89.5

Elevation (see definition): 400

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1962

Description (see definition): A snow and rock escarpment, 15 mi long, extending from the base of Ford Massif to King Peak, in the Thiel Mountains. The escarpment drops 300 to 400 m from the polar plateau to the ice surface N of these mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Peter F. Bermel, cartographer, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (Bermel Peninsula, q.v.); co-leader (with Arthur B. Ford) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Thiel Mountains party which surveyed the mountains in 1960-61; leader of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Topo East and Topo West, 1962-63, in which geodetic control was extended from the area of Cape Hallett to the Wilson Hills (Topo West), and from the foot of Beardmore Glacier through the Horlick Mountains (Topo East).

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