Miller Bluffs
| Miller Bluffs | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 35 ′ S , 85 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Miller Bluffs are a series of steep, east-facing cliffs in Ellsworthland, West Antarctica . They extend over a length of 25 km in a west-northwest direction starting from the mouth of the Newcomer Glacier in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth photographed the northern part of the bluff during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The United States Geological Survey mapped the formation in 1961 using aerial photographs of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1972 after the American politician George Paul Miller (1891-1982), Chairman of the Committee on Space Affairs in the United States Congress , who was committed to the completion of US research activities in Antarctica between 1958 and started in 1972.
Web links
- Miller Bluffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Miller Bluffs on geographic.org (English)