Muckle Bluff
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| location | Elephant Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 61 ° 9 ′ S , 54 ° 51 ′ W | |
 Map of Elephant Island with Muckle Bluff |
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The Muckle Bluff is a rock cliff on the south coast of Elephant Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 8 km west of Walker Point .
Participants in the UK Joint Services Expedition (1970–1971) mapped the cliff. It was given its descriptive name in 1971 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee . The word muckle , borrowed from the Scottish Gaelic language, means big .
Web links
- Muckle Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Muckle Bluff on geographic.org (English)