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Four Mile Cliff

cliff in Antarctica

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ24189993 ↗
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Four Mile Cliff (77°11′58″S 162°27′05″E) is a rock cliff, 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) long, that flanks the southern side of Debenham Glacier north of Mount Bevilacqua. The cliff rises 150 metres (490 ft) above the glacier and 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level. A descriptive name was applied by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007.

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This article incorporates public domain material from "Four Mile Cliff". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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“Four Mile Cliff” enters the record as cliff in Antarctica. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Four, Mile and Cliff can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Four Mile Cliff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.