Oehlenschlager bluff
| Oehlenschlager bluff | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Erickson Bluffs in McDonald Heights | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 3 ′ S , 136 ° 42 ′ W | |
The Oehlenschlager Bluff is a steep cliff in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land that towers over the Hull Glacier . It marks the southwestern extension of the Erickson Bluffs and McDonald Heights .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the formation on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1959 and 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1974 after the American biologist Richard J. Oehlenschlager, who with the USCGC Southwind in the In 1971 and 1972 population studies of seals, whales and birds in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas had been carried out.
Web links
- Oehlenschlager Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oehlenschlager Bluff on geographic.org (English)