Birthday bluffs
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 33 ' S , 164 ° 22' E | |
The Birthday Bluffs ( English for birthday cliffs ) are cliffs in East Antarctica Victoria Land . They rise to a height of 1296 m between Anniversary Bluff and Windscoop Bluff on the south flank of Mason Spur on the Scott Coast .
The naming of the cliffs 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 explored the cliffs on November 21, 1983, the birthday of her father Peter Wright.
Web links
- Birthday Bluffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Birthday Bluffs on geographic.org