Birdsend Bluff
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 44 ′ S , 62 ° 32 ′ W | |
The Bird Send Bluff is a rock cliff on the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Arctowski Peninsula , it juts out on the south side of the mouth of the Wheatstone Glacier in the Errera Canal .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , carried out an initial rough mapping. The cliff got its name from geodesists of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . It was named after an event in which a bird was killed by falling rocks on this cliff in May 1956 .
Web links
- Bird Send Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Birdsend Bluff on geographic.org (English)