Lowe Bluff
| Lowe Bluff | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 58 ′ S , 137 ° 12 ′ W | |
The Lowe Bluff is a towering rock cliff in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it looms between the head ends of the Kansas Glacier and Alaska Canyon along the Watson Escarpment .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after William G. Lowe, radio operator at Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of that year 1967.
Web links
- Lowe Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lowe Bluff on geographic.org (English)