Mier's bluff

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Mier's bluff
False Bay.JPG
Miers Bluff (right) at the entrance to False Bay
Geographical location
Miers Bluff (South Shetland Islands)
Mier's bluff
Coordinates 62 ° 43 ′  S , 60 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 43 ′  S , 60 ° 26 ′  W
location Livingston Island ( South Shetland Islands )
Waters Bransfield Street
Waters 2 False Bay

The Miers Bluff ( Spanish Punta Elefante ) is a towering cliff on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It marks the southern end of the Hurd Peninsula and limits the entrance to False Bay to the southwest .

For a long time the name Elephant Point was mistakenly used for this formation, but it applies to a cape further west that was named by the British seal hunter Robert Fildes (1793-1827). The namesake of the current name is the British botanist and civil engineer John Miers (1789–1879), on whom the first map of the South Shetland Islands based on the work of William Smith goes back.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Elefante, Punta at the Australian Antarctic Data Center, accessed January 2, 2017