Davis Bluff
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| location | White Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 9 ′ S , 167 ° 35 ′ E | |
The Davis Bluff is a 400 m high rocky cliff on the east coast of White Iceland in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It rises 3 km northeast of Isolation Point .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 2005 after the American marine biologist Randall W. Davis of Texas A&M University , who studied the Weddell seals in the McMurdo Sound area including White Island from 1977 to 2003 .
Web links
- Davis Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davis Bluff on geographic.org (English)