Mallory Bluff
| Mallory Bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Alexandra chain in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 2 ′ S , 165 ° 50 ′ E | |
The Mallory Bluff is a striking cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain , it rises northeast of the head end of the Wahl glacier on the northwest slope of the Grindley Plateau .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1966 after Roger P. Mallory Jr. (* 1930), a meteorologist for the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1962 and at Wilkes Station the following year.
Web links
- Mallory Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mallory Bluff on geographic.org (English)