Melbourne Bluff
| Melbourne Bluff | ||
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| location | Heard Island ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 2 ′ S , 73 ° 32 ′ E | |
The Melbourne Bluff is a 385 m high rock cliff on the north side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean . It rises from icy slopes 2.1 km south of Cape Bidlingmaier .
Participants in a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions surveyed the cliff in 1948. They named it so because its east-northeast orientation points directly towards Melbourne , location of the headquarters of the expedition series.
Web links
- Melbourne Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Melbourne Bluff on geographic.org (English)