Jennings Bluff
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| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 42 ′ S , 55 ° 29 ′ E | |
The Jennings Bluff is a 100 m high and flattened top cliff dark rock in the East Antarctic Kemp Land . It rises 16 km north of the Storegutt . While its steep eastern flank is visible, the western flank is covered by the continental ice sheet .
The cliff was discovered during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Norwegian cartographers, who called it Brattstabben ( Norwegian for steep stump ), mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The cliff was re-mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1961 after Noel D. Jennings, assistant diesel engine mechanic at Mawson Station in 1960.
Web links
- Jennings Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jennings Bluff on geographic.org (English)