Clarke Bluff
| Clarke Bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Wilson Hills in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 39 ′ S , 159 ° 13 ′ E | |
The Clarke Bluff is a steep and 840 m high cliff in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Wilson Hills , it rises at the eastern end of Feeney Ridge .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the cliff using its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Lieutenant Jon B. Clarke, navigator of an LC-130 Hercules for the Aerial photograph taken during Operation Deep Freeze in 1967 and 1968.
Web links
- Clarke Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clarke Bluff on geographic.org (English)