Dibble bluff
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| location | White Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 7 ′ S , 167 ° 13 ′ E | |
The Dibble Bluff is a striking, steep and 400 m high rock cliff in the west of White Iceland in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It rises 1.5 km south of Marshall Cirque on the edge of the ice shelf in McMurdo Sound .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1999 after the New Zealand geophysicist Raymond Russel Dibble of the Victoria University of Wellington , who studied the volcanic and seismic activity of Mount Erebus on neighboring Ross Island in five campaigns between 1980 and 1985 .
Web links
- Dibble Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dibble Bluff on geographic.org (English)