Magnetite bluff
| Magnetite bluff | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 22 ′ S , 51 ° 15 ′ W | |
The magnetite Bluff is a 1,710 m high rock cliff in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it rises 3 km northeast of Mount Stephens on the west side of the Saratoga Table .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1979 at the suggestion of the US geologist Arthur B. Ford . It is named after the large occurrence of magnetite in the gabbro rock of this region, which causes large magnetic anomalies in the Forrestal Range.
Web links
- Magnetite Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Magnetite Bluff on geographic.org (English)