Kaminuma Bluff
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 36 ′ S , 168 ° 57 ′ E | |
The Kaminuma Bluff is a massive, icy and over 200 m high cliff on the southeastern shore of the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises halfway between Cape MacKay and Cape Crozier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 2000 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle after Katsutada Kaminuma (* 1931) from the National Polar Research Institute of Japan, one of the founders of the international program for seismic studies on Mount Erebus ( English International Mount Erebus Seismic Study , IMESS for short) at the beginning of the 1980s, in which the United States, Japan and New Zealand were involved.
Web links
- Kaminuma Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kaminuma Bluff on geographic.org (English)