Lisignoli Bluff
| Lisignoli Bluff | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 31 ′ S , 42 ° 39 ′ W | |
The Lisignoli Bluff is a 610 m high rock cliff in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Argentina Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it rises at the northern end of the Schneider Hills .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the Argentine glaciologist César Augusto Lisignoli, scientific director of the Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter 1961.
Web links
- Lisignoli Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lisignoli Bluff on geographic.org (English)