Barter bluff
| Barter bluff | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Kohler Range | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 10 ′ S , 114 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Barter Bluff is a cliff in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . It rises 2.5 km west of Leister Peak in the Kohler Range and forms a section of the steep side wall along the Kohler Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the cliff using its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1978 after Leland Lasater Barter (1897–1986), a marine engineer on the Eleanor Bolling during the first (1928–1930) and both on the Bear of Oakland and on the Jacob Ruppert during the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Barter Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barter Bluff on geographic.org (English)