Blustery Cliffs
| Blustery Cliffs | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Fisher Massif in the Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 25 ′ S , 67 ° 53 ′ E | |
The Blustery Cliffs ( English for stormy cliffs ) are a series of up to 1135 m high cliffs in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They extend over a length of 5.5 km in the northern part of the Fisher Massif in the Prince Charles Mountains .
John Manning, geodesist for the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions to explore the Prince Charles Mountains, set up a surveying station here in January 1969. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them in 1971 after the prevailing currents here .
Web links
- Blustery Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blustery Cliffs on geographic.org (English)