Washington Escarpment

Washington Escarpment is the major west-facing escarpment of the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains of Queen Elizabeth Land in the British Antarctic Territory. The escarpment extends north to south for some fifty miles from the vicinity of Mount Dasinger to the vicinity of Gambacorta Peak. This escarpment is the point of origin of a number of west-trending rock ridges.

The escarpment was photographed from the air by the United States Navy and surveyed from the ground by the United States Geological Survey, 1963-64. The scarp is named after the University of Washington, in Seattle, the Alma Mater of five members of the United States Geological Survey field party.

Location

• Location map: 83°41’24"S, 55°2’3"W

Reference

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Washington Escarpment