Fruitcake Bluff
| Fruitcake Bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Usarp Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 33 ′ S , 160 ° 29 ′ E | |
The Fruitcake Bluff is a steep and around 100 m high cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Daniels Range of the Usarp Mountains , it rises in a northeast-southwest orientation over a length of 1.5 km in the southeast section of the Thompson Spur .
It was discovered by geologists Carlos Plummer and Scott Babcock, who conducted explorations in the Daniels Range in December 1981 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program . The descriptive designation for a fruit cake ( English fruitcake ) was based on the impression that the predominant here in rock texture imparted and colouration.
Web links
- Fruitcake Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fruitcake Bluff on geographic.org (English)