Forsythe bluff
| Forsythe bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Usarp Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 16 ′ S , 159 ° 50 ′ E | |
The Forsythe Bluff is a more than 2500 m high rock cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the western edge of the Daniels Range in the Usarp Mountains about 18 km north of Big Brother Bluff .
The area was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1970 after Warren L. Forsythe, geologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program on the McMurdo station from 1967 to 1968.
Web links
- Forsythe Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Forsythe Bluff on geographic.org (English)