Hall bluff
| Hall bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Dais in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ' S , 161 ° 23' E | |
The Hall Bluff is a striking and 750 m high rock cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the eastern end of the Dais and marks the location of the subdivision of the Wright Valley into its side valleys North Fork and South Fork .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1997 after Brenda Hall, a research assistant to the University of Maine's Geosciences Department who was involved in six United States Geological Survey field research campaigns from 1990 to 1991 and 1995 to 1996 .
Web links
- Hall Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hall Bluff on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Brenda Hall , presence on the homepage of the University of Maine (English, accessed June 14, 2016).