Soyuz-17 Cliff
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Soyuz-17 Cliff () is a prominent rock cliff, 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) long, on the north side of
Carlyon Glacier Carlyon Glacier () is a large glacier which flows east-southeast from the névé east of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray. It was mapped in 1958 by the Darwin Glacier party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956– ...
in the
Cook Mountains The Cook Mountains is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica. Parts of the group were first viewed from the Ross Ice Shelf by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04). Additional portions of t ...
. The cliff is 4 nautical miles (7 km) west-northwest of
Cape Murray Conway Range () is a mountain range in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica, on the west edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. Location The Conway Range is in the northeast part of the Cook Mountains. It lies between Mulock Glacier to the north and Carlyon Gl ...
and rises to c. . Named after the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 17 of January 17, 1975. Cliffs of Oates Land {{OatesLand-geo-stub