DeVries bluff
| DeVries bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 19 ′ S , 157 ° 45 ′ E | |
The DeVries Bluff is a steep and 1660 m high top cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It extends along the northern flank of the Byrd Glacier immediately east of the confluence of the DeVries Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 based on the name of the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is the biologist Arthur Leeland DeVries (* 1935), who worked from 1961 to 2002 as part of the United States Antarctic Program with the protection of fish species in McMurdo Sound from freezing .
Web links
- DeVries Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- DeVries Bluff on geographic.org (English)