Buskirk Bluffs
| Buskirk Bluffs | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Anare Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 47 ′ S , 165 ° 39 ′ E | |
The Buskirk Bluffs are cliffs in East Antarctica Victoria Land . They tower up in the Anare Mountains on the west side of the McMahon Glacier .
Participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) named the cliffs after Major Harvey Buskirk (1935-2004) of the United States Air Force , official American observer in the ANARE campaign in 1962, during which this area was explored.
Web links
- Buskirk Bluffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buskirk Bluffs on geographic.org