Alpha bluff
| Alpha bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 52 ′ S , 162 ° 29 ′ E | |
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.
Web links
- Alpha Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alpha Bluff on geographic.org (English)