Tragic Corner () is a bluff rising to about 750 m and marking the northeast end of
Boulding Ridge, located between
Todd Glacier and
McClary Glacier on
Fallières Coast
The Fallières Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between the head of Bourgeois Fjord and Cape Jeremy and lies on Marguerite Bay and the Wordie Ice Shelf. On the south it is joined by Rymill Coast, and in the north ...
. So named by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
(UK-APC) because
Thomas J. Allan and
John Fraser Noel
John Fraser Noel (1942-1966) was an engineer from Cardiff, Wales, who died in Antarctica in 1966.
Noel was a diesel mechanic for the British Antarctic Survey at Stonington Island in 1965–1966. He died in May 1966, in a sledging accident, tryi ...
died in the vicinity on a sledge journey from
Stonington Island
Stonington Island is a rocky island lying northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is long from north-west to south-east and wide, yielding an area of . It was formerly ...
in May 1966.
Cliffs of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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