Mummery Cliff
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Mummery Cliff () is a cliff situated in
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
rising to about 1,250 m to the southeast of Whymper Spur in the Pioneers Escarpment,
Shackleton Range The Shackleton Range () is a mountain range in Antarctica that rises to and extends in an east–west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery Glaciers. Surveys The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), which in 1956 s ...
. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named by the
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) in 1971 after Albert F. Mummery (1855–95), English mountaineer and designer of the Mummery tent. Cliffs of Coats Land {{CoatsLand-geo-stub