Fault bluff
| Fault bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 18 ′ S , 157 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Fault Bluff ( English for rejection cliff is) a 2320 m high and striking the top cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains , it rises 15 km northeast of Mount Longhurst .
Participants of the team to explore the Darwin Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) visited the cliff between 1957 and 1958. They named it after a geological fault in the middle of the cliff.
Web links
- Fault Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fault Bluff on geographic.org (English)