Alpha bluff

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Alpha bluff
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
part of Transantarctic Mountains
Alpha Bluff (Antarctica)
Alpha bluff
Coordinates 78 ° 52 ′  S , 162 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 78 ° 52 ′  S , 162 ° 29 ′  E
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The Alpha Bluff is a towering cliff at the Hillary Coast in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises to the west of the Shults Peninsula on the eastern flank of the Skelton Glacier .

The New Zealand crew of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) carried out a survey in 1957 and named it after the Greek letter alpha , as it is the southernmost of a series of cliffs along the Skelton Glacier.

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