Elder Bluff
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 30 ′ S , 61 ° 41 ′ W | |
The Elder Bluff is a striking and mainly un-iced cliff on the Black Coast in the east of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms part of the north side of the Eielson Peninsula and overlooks Smith Inlet .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1976 after Robert Bruce Elder (* 1929), head of the United States Coast Guard's oceanographic unit on the first of the International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions on board the icebreaker USS Glacier in 1968.
Web links
- Elder Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Elder Bluff on geographic.org