Macdonald Bluffs

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Macdonald Bluffs
Topographic map sheet with the Miller Range (top left) and the Macdonald Bluffs

Topographic map sheet with the Miller Range (top left) and the Macdonald Bluffs

location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
part of Miller Range in the Transantarctic Mountains
Macdonald Bluffs (Antarctica)
Macdonald Bluffs
Coordinates 83 ° 15 ′  S , 157 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 83 ° 15 ′  S , 157 ° 50 ′  E
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The Macdonald Bluffs are distinctive, east-facing cliffs in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Miller Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, they rise between the Argosy and Argo Glaciers in the direction of the Marsh Glacier .

Members of the New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (ctaE) (1955-1958) mapped the cliffs and named it after the New Zealand teacher William James Peter Macdonald (born 1925), who during the International Geophysical Year on the 1957 Scott Base was active .

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