Asquith Bluff

Asquith Bluff
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
part of	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 30 ′  S , 167 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 83 ° 30 ′  S , 167 ° 21 ′  E

The Asquith Bluff is a wedge-shaped rock cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises on the west side of the Lennox King Glacier and about 6 km southeast of Mount Allen Young .

The cliff was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the then incumbent British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1852–1928).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Asquith Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Asquith Bluff on geographic.org (English)