Centaur Bluff
| Centaur Bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Surveyors Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 50 ′ S , 160 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Centaur Bluff is a steep, 2,100 m high-altitude cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the east side of the Surveyors Range in the Transantarctic Mountains , it rises 7 km west of Mount Canopus .
Participants in a campaign carried out by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition from 1960 to 1961 named it after the Alpha Centauri binary star system , which they used as a fixed point for surveying work .
Web links
- Centaur Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Centaur Bluff on geographic.org (English)