Benson Bluff
| Benson Bluff | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 0 ′ S , 157 ° 57 ′ E | |
The Benson Bluff is a 1,300 m high and striking triangular cliff in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises up in the Britannia Range on the western flank of the Ragotzkie Icefall .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2000 after the US cartographer Dale P. Benson of the United States Geological Survey , who carried out geodetic surveys in the vicinity of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1993 and 1994 and on the first air-assisted GPS- controlled photogrammetry project was involved in determining the position of Black Island and setting up seismographic instruments on the flanks of Mount Erebus .
Web links
- Benson Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Benson Bluff on geographic.org (English)