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Burn Cliffs: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Burn Cliffs in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Burn Cliffs

Feature Class (see definition): Cliff

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 2170

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 70° 06' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 069° 47' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -70.1

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -69.7833333

Elevation (see definition): 455

Decision Year (see definition): No data

Description (see definition): Two rock outlier ridges (455 m) westward of Mount Ethelwulf, Douglas Range, at the head of Haydn Inlet, Alexander Island. The feature was mapped by DOS from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy in 1966 and U.S. Landsat imagery taken Jan. 1974. Named by UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC), 1977, after Richard W. Burn, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) geologist, Adelaide Island and N Alexander Island, 1975-76 and 1976-77.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Burn Cliffs in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Burn Cliffs information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Burn Cliffs should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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