Ebony Wall
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Ebony Wall is a dark, nearly vertical rock wall which rises about 400 m at the head of Pettus Glacier
. The wall is about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) long and forms a part of the west escarpment of Detroit Plateau
near the base of Trinity Peninsula
. Charted in 1948 by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who applied the descriptive name.
Pettus Glacier
Pettus Glacier is a narrow deeply entrenched glacier 9 nautical miles long, which flows north from Ebony Wall into Gavin Ice Piedmont between Poynter Hill and Tinsel Dome, Trinity Peninsula. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert N...
. The wall is about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) long and forms a part of the west escarpment of Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...
near the base of Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
. Charted in 1948 by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who applied the descriptive name.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.