Lachal Bluffs
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 30 ′ S , 61 ° 9 ′ E | |
The Lachal Bluffs are a group of cliffs on the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They rise up just south of the island of Ufsøy .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them after Robert Paul Lachal (* 1943), assistant cook and assistant geologist at Mawson Station in 1965, who was part of the Australian rowing eight at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo .
Web links
- Lachal Bluffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lachal Bluffs on geographic.org (English)