Factory bluffs
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| location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 43 ′ S , 45 ° 36 ′ W | |
The Factory Bluffs ( English for factory cliffs ) are 120 m high cliffs on Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . They tower south of Signy Station and Factory Cove .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on December 20, 1974 after a small factory that was in operation below the cliffs on the banks of Factory Cove for processing whale carcasses from the 1920s to the 1930s .
Web links
- Factory Bluffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Factory Bluffs on geographic.org (English)