Anderson Scarp

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Anderson Scarp (

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77°33′S 161°21′E / 77.550°S 161.350°E / -77.550; 161.350Coordinates: 77°33′S 161°21′E / 77.550°S 161.350°E / -77.550; 161.350) is an upward slope and cliff 935 metres (3,070 ft) high, about 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km) west of Hall Bluff on the , Wright Valley, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2004 after of the , U.S. Geological Survey, from 1992. He played a key role in the installation of the seismograph station at Bull Pass, near Lake Vanda, in the early 1990s.[1]

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  1. ^ "Anderson Scarp". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-05-10.

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