Nutt bluff
| Nutt bluff | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 33 ′ S , 51 ° 41 ′ W | |
The Nutt Bluff is a 1315 m high cliff in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it rises on the Dufek Massif southeast of the Alley Spur .
The American geologist Arthur B. Ford , head of the team of the United States Geological Survey to explore the Dufek massif from 1976 to 1977, named it after the geologist Constance Jane Nutt (* 1950) from Stanford University , a member of this team.
Web links
- Nutt Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nutt Bluff on geographic.org (English)