Anniversary bluff
| Anniversary bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 33 ′ S , 164 ° 15 ′ E | |
The Anniversary Bluff ( English for Anniversary Cliff ) is a cliff in the Royal Society Range of East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at a height of 1,300 m at a distance of 2.5 km west of Birthday Bluff on the south flank of Mason Spur on the Scott Coast .
The name of the cliff goes back to a proposal by the New Zealand geologist Anne Catherine Wright (* 1954, later married Wright-Grassham) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro , New Mexico . Wright visited the cliff on November 29, 1983, her parents' wedding anniversary.
Web links
- Anniversary Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Anniversary Bluff on geographic.org (English)