Cohn Bluff
| Cohn Bluff | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 15 ′ S , 158 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Cohn Bluff is a 400 m high cliff in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises in the southern part of the Britannia Range and marks the south side of the confluence of the Yancey Glacier with the Byrd Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2000 after James Edward Cohn (1904–1997), captain of the USS Yancey during Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Cohn Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cohn Bluff on geographic.org (English)