Jones Bluffs
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 46 ′ S , 110 ° 20 ′ W | |
 Map of the Bear Peninsula with the Jones Bluffs (bottom right) |
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The Jones Bluffs are towering, snow-covered cliffs in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . On the Walgreen Coast, they rise south of the Holt Glacier in the eastern part of the Bear Peninsula .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the cliffs using aerial photographs from Operation Highjump (1946–1947) from January 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1967 after Lieutenant Commander Stanley W. Jones (1926–2007) of the US Navy, pilot of aircraft for magnetometric measurements during Operation Deep Freeze in 1966 and 1967.
Web links
- Jones Bluffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jones Bluffs on geographic.org