Castellini Bluff
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| location | White Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 9 ′ S , 167 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Castellini Bluff is a 500 m high cliff in the west of White Island in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It looms between Dibble Bluff and Mount Nesos .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 2005 after Michael A. Castellini of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks , who studied the population development of the Weddell seal in the sea ice area of McMurdo Sound between 1977 and 2004 , including in the winter of 1981 on White Island.
Web links
- Castellini Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Castellini Bluff on geographic.org (English)