Boyer Bluff
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 10 ′ S , 160 ° 5 ′ E | |
 Boyer Bluff is not yet entered by name on the map from 1964. Constellation Dome in the DARLEY HILLS in the northern coastal area of the map sheet |
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The Boyer Bluff is a 1080 m high and mainly iced top cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 6 km southwest of the Constellation Dome on the southwest edge of the Darley Hills in the Churchill Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after David S. Boyer (1920-1992), member of the editorial staff of the magazine of the National Geographic Society with a focus on Antarctica between 1956 and 1957.
Web links
- Boyer Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boyer Bluff on geographic.org (English)