Mahalak Bluffs
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 17 ′ S , 65 ° 23 ′ W | |
The Mahalak Bluffs are a discontinuous range of 3 km of rocky cliffs on the Bowman Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They tower 500 m high on the north side of the Solberg Inlet and form the south-west coast of the Joerg Peninsula east of the Robilliard Glacier .
Aerial photographs taken by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on November 21, 1935 were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for an initial mapping. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named her in 1977 after Lieutenant Lawrence W. Mahalak Jr. (* 1945) of the United States Navy , who was a doctor on Palmer Station during Operation Deep Freeze in 1971 .
Web links
- Mahalak Bluffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mahalak Bluffs on geographic.org (English)