Moraine Bluff
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 46 ′ S , 162 ° 12 ′ E | |
 Topographic map (1: 250,000) with the Moraine Bluff (bottom left) |
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The Moraine Bluff is a 930 m high rock cliff at the Hillary Coast in the south of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises north of Red Dike Bluff on the eastern flank of the Skelton Glacier .
The New Zealand crew of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) carried out measurements and naming in 1957. It is named after a moraine strip that extends from the base of the cliff into the Skelton Glacier.
Web links
- Moraine Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moraine Bluff on geographic.org (English)