Molnia Bluff
| Molnia Bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Clare Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 16 ′ S , 160 ° 57 ′ E | |
The Molnia Bluff is a 1750 m high and steep top cliff in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Clare Range , it extends in a west-east orientation for a length of 1.5 km at the southeast end of Parker Mesa . Only 400 m of its total height are visible.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2005 after the geologist Bruce Franklin Molnia from the United States Geological Survey , who among other things carried out seismic studies in the Southern Ocean and its Antarctic seas between 1965 and 1966 on board the USNS Eltanin and later held a leading position of the National Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Molnia Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Molnia Bluff on geographic.org (English)