Jeffery Head

	Jeffery Head
	; Map of the Bear Peninsula with Jeffrey Head (left)
	Geographical location
Coordinates	74 ° 33 ′ S , 111 ° 54 ′ W Coordinates: 74 ° 33 ′ S , 111 ° 54 ′ W
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
coast	Walgreen coast
Waters	Dotson Ice Shelf

The Jeffery Head is a striking and rocky headland on the Walgreen Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . It is located 6 km south of the Brush Glacier on the west side of the Bear Peninsula and protrudes into the Dotson Ice Shelf .

The first aerial photographs were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Stuart S. Jeffery, an ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station in 1966.

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