Isengard Bluff
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| location | Tonkin Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 50 ′ S , 65 ° 18 ′ W | |
The Isengard Bluff is an isolated cliff on the southwestern foothills of Tonkin Iceland before Bowman Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula .
It was discovered by Mark Russell of the British Antarctic Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2003 after Isengard , the seat of the magician Saruman from the novel The Lord of the Rings by the British writer JRR Tolkien .
Web links
- Isengard Bluff in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)