Lunar Crag

Lunar Crag is one of the rock-exposed summits within the Planet Heights mountain range, rising to about 4,000 feet at the head of Pluto Glacier on the east side of Alexander Island in the British Antarctic Territory.

The crag was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition of 1947–48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960.

The crag was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 in association with nearby landforms named after planets and satellites of the Solar System; other examples include a series of glaciers named for the planets, and the Phobos Ridge.

Location

• Location map: 71°7’60"S, 68°42’0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Lunar Crag