Hamilton Bluff
| Hamilton Bluff | ||
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 44 ′ S , 73 ° 56 ′ E | |
| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Ingrid Christensen Coast | |
| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
The Hamilton Bluff is a rocky headland on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . It is 3 km west of Palmer Point and 16 km west of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Australian geologist Ian Roderick McLeod (* 1931) visited them in 1969 as part of a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) to the Prince Charles Mountains . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after the helicopter pilot Robert Hamilton, who took part in an ANARE campaign in 1968.
Web links
- Hamilton Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hamilton Bluff on geographic.org (English)