Doolittle Bluff
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 37 ′ S , 162 ° 38 ′ E | |
The Doolittle Bluff is a big rock cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the north side of the Taylor Valley, it towers over the firn field at the head of the Suess Glacier by 500 m and reaches a height of 1835 m .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1997 after the American physicist John H. Doolittle, scientific director of the Siple station in 1977, who also worked in various functions between 1975 and 1976 at the McMurdo station and the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Doolittle Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Doolittle Bluff on geographic.org (English)