Madder Cliffs

The Madder Cliffs rising to 443 feet above the sea form the northern entrance point of Kinnes Cove, on the west coast of Joinville Island, an island off the Trinity Peninsula at Graham Land's north-eastern tip, within the British Antarctic Territory.

The cliffs were surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in 1953-54, and so named in the survey not from any profusion here of Rubia tinctorum (nor indeed any other plantlife in such a harshly scoured Antarctic location) but from the red colour of the rocks, madder being a plant which produces a red dye.

Location

• Location map: 63°17’53"S, 56°29’23"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Madder Cliffs