Fletcher Bluff
| Fletcher Bluff | ||
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| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | The Princess Royal Range | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 36 ′ S , 68 ° 44 ′ W | |
The Fletcher Bluff is an approximately 800 m high cliff with a rocky front and snow-covered back on the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . In the Princess Royal Range , it rises 5 km west-northwest of the summit of Mount Liotard on the eastern edge of the Fuchs-Piedmont Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee made the designation in 1983. It is named after David Donald William Fletcher (* 1948) of the British Antarctic Survey , who worked at Halley Station from 1972 to 1973 and headed the station on Signy Island from 1973 to 1974 and the Rothera station from 1976 to 1981 .
Web links
- Fletcher Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fletcher Bluff on geographic.org (English)