Buntley Bluff
| Buntley Bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 12 ′ S , 160 ° 24 ′ E | |
The Buntley Bluff is a striking and 3 km long rocky cliff at the Hillary Coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises immediately north of Cape Lankester and southeast of Anthony Bluff at the mouth of the Mulock Glacier and the Ross Ice Shelf .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the cliff using its own tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after Ronald E. Buntley of the Civil Engineer Corps of the US Navy, who was responsible for personnel at Williams Field airfield on McMurdo Sound during Operation Deep Freeze in 1964.
Web links
- Buntley Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buntley Bluff on geographic.org (English)