Nordenskjöld Outcrops

The Nordenskjöld Outcrops are a series of a rock outcrops found on the west side of the Longing Peninsula at the north-east end of Nordenskjold Coast, along the eastern coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

The feature extends south for two and a half miles from the vicinity of Longing Gap.

The outcrops were named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee following British Antarctic Survey geological work, 1987–88, after Dr Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskijöld, the leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, who explored this coast in 1902 and from whom this whole coast was named.

Geology and palaeontology

These outcrops are the type locality for the geologic 'Nordenskjöld Formation'.

Fossils of the Jurassic cephalopod Trachyteuthis were discovered in this area in 1987-1988.

Location

• Location map: 64°27’12"S, 58°59’8"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Nordenskjöld Outcrops