Omelchenko bluff
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ S , 166 ° 46 ′ E | |
The Omelchenko Bluff is a more than 600 m high cliff on the Antarctic Ross Island in the Ross Archipelago . It rises about 1 km northwest of Grazyna Bluff in the vicinity of Cape Evans between the Turks Head Ridge and the Tech Crags .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named the cliff in 2012 after Anton Lukitsch Omeltschenko (1883-1932), the Russian groom on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Omelchenko Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)