Léal Bluff
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| location | Vega Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 53 ′ S , 57 ° 35 ′ W | |
The Léal Bluff (originally Cerro Léal , Léal Hill 'in Spanish ) is a 485 m high cliff in the southwestern part of Vega Island in the Antarctic Weddell Sea . It is 3 km inland from Cape Lamb .
Participants of an Argentine Antarctic expedition carried out from 1958 to 1959 named it in the erroneous assumption that it was a hill , after Jorge Edgard Léal (1921-2017), major and later brigadier general of the Argentine army , who in 1947 as deputy head of the Esperanza station was active. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this designation into English in 1964 in an adapted form.
Web links
- Léal Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Léal Bluff on geographic.org (English)