Lewis Bluff
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 53 ′ S , 140 ° 36 ′ W | |
The Lewis Bluff is a 860 m cliff on the Ruppert coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises 11 km southeast of Mount McCoy at the confluence of the Paschal Glacier and White Glacier .
Aerial photos were taken during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The United States Geological Survey mapped it between 1959 and 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after David L. Lewis, ionospheric physicist for the United States Antarctic Research Program at Byrd Station in 1963.
Web links
- Lewis Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lewis Bluff on geographic.org (English)