Ebony Wall

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Ebony Wall (63°55′S 59°9′W / 63.917°S 59.150°W / -63.917; -59.150Coordinates: 63°55′S 59°9′W / 63.917°S 59.150°W / -63.917; -59.150) is a dark, nearly vertical rock wall in Antarctica, which rises about 400 metres (1,300 ft) at the head of Pettus Glacier. The wall is about 2 nautical miles (4 km) long and forms a part of the western escarpment of Detroit Plateau near the base of Trinity Peninsula. It was charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who applied the descriptive name.[1]

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

  1. ↑ "Ebony Wall". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-02-23.

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