Holmes block
| Holmes block | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 13 ′ S , 161 ° 35 ′ E | |
The Holmes Block is a block-like and 1855 m high cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3 km west of Cooke Bluff on the west side of Ruecroft Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1994 after John W. Holmes, a cartographer in the United States Geological Survey's specialty mapping division from 1951 to 1977.
Web links
- Holmes block in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Holmes Block on geographic.org (English)