Bluff Island (Princess Elisabeth Land)
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 33 ' S , 77 ° 54' E | |
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Bluff Island (from English bluff , steep bank, cliff ' ) is an island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located in Prydz Bay 800 meters south of Magnetic Island and 3 km west of the Breidnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . A new mapping was carried out by participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1957–1958). It is named after a steep cliff at the southern end of the island.
Web links
- Bluff Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bluff Island on geographic.org (English)