MacFarlane Bluff
| MacFarlane Bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 28 ′ S , 155 ° 36 ′ E | |
The MacFarlane Bluff is about 1800 m high cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the western Churchill Mountains , it rises as part of the All-Blacks Nunatakker .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2003 after the New Zealand biologist Malcolm MacFarlane of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries , who worked at Vanda Station and Scott Base between 1983 and 1996 .
Web links
- MacFarlane Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- MacFarlane Bluff on geographic.org (English)