Fossil Bluff

	Fossil Bluff
	Geographical location
Coordinates	71 ° 20 ′ S , 68 ° 16 ′ W Coordinates: 71 ° 20 ′ S , 68 ° 16 ′ W
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Waters	George VI Sound
Waters 2	Uranus glacier
particularities	Fossil Bluff Station

The Fossil Bluff is a prominent headland in the form of a rocky cliff on the east coast of Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the north side of the estuary of the Uranus Glacier in the George VI Sound .

It may have been spotted for the first time by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth , who photographed parts of the coast in question during an overflight on November 23, 1935. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) mapped it in 1936. They discovered a fossil-bearing rock layer that gave the bluff its name. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a new survey in 1948.

The Fossil Bluff is the location of the Fossil Bluff Station .

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