Burns Bluff
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 Southern part of the Burns Bluff from George VI Sound as seen from |
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 22 ′ S , 67 ° 55 ′ W | |
The Burns Bluff is a rock cliff on the Rymill coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises south of the Naess glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the cliff in 1976 after the geophysicist Frederick Michael Burns (* 1946), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey on Stonington Island from 1967 to 1969 .
Web links
Commons : Burns Bluff - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Burns Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burns Bluff on geographic.org (English)