Eckman Bluff
| Eckman Bluff | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Jones Bluffs | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 47 ′ S , 110 ° 22 ′ W | |
 Map of the Bear Peninsula with Jones Bluffs and Eckman Bluff (below the center of the map) |
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The Eckman Bluff is a 350 m high, angular and mainly icy cliff in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . With a steep front on the southeast side, it looms south of Jones Bluffs on the Bear Peninsula on the Walgreen Coast .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the cliff using its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1977 after Commander James F. Eckman of the United States Coast Guard , an engineer officer from 1970 to 1971 and from 1975 until 1976 senior officer on the icebreaker USCGC Burton Island and officer in charge of ship operations in the command staff of Naval Support Force Antarctica between 1977 and 1978 and from 1978 to 1979.
Web links
- Eckman Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eckman Bluff on geographic.org (English)