Landing bluff
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 45 ′ S , 73 ° 43 ′ E | |
The Landing Bluff ( English for 'Landungsklippe'; Norwegian Strandknatten 'Strandfelsen' ) is a 119 m high cliff on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . With its steep eastern flank and numerous rocky outcrops in the southwest, it rises 26 km west of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen on the southwest shore of Sandefjord Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . A team from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) set up a surveying station here in 1968 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the cliff in 1968. Its name is derived from the proximity of the cliff to the landfall for provisions and equipment for the ANARE team, who had explored the Amery Ice Shelf from January to March 1968 .
Web links
- Landing Bluff in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)