McCain Bluff
| McCain Bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Usarp Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 19 ′ S , 160 ° 5 ′ E | |
The McCain Bluff is a weighty rock cliff at the Oates Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Usarp Mountains it rises on the northern flank of the mouth of the Svendsen Glacier in a previously unnamed foreland glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after John C. McCain, biologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program on the McMurdo- Station from 1967 to 1968.
Web links
- McCain Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCain Bluff on geographic.org (English)