Grass bluff
| Grass bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 35 ′ S , 177 ° 14 ′ E | |
The Grass Bluff is a wedge-shaped cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the southern part of the Roberts Massif in the Queen Maud Mountains , it rises 6 km northwest of Fluted Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the meteorologist Robert D. Grass, who worked in the Antarctic winter of 1964 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Grass Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grass Bluff on geographic.org (English)