Palais Bluff
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 19 ′ S , 166 ° 33 ′ E | |
The Palais Bluff is a 400 m high cliff in the northwest of the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises above Wohlschlag Bay between the mouth of Shearwater Glacier and Quaternary Icefall .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 2000 at the suggestion of New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle after Julie Michelle Palais (* 1956), program manager for glaciology in the Office for Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation , who was a doctoral student at Ohio State University in glaciological and volcanological studies Was involved in studies on Ross Island.
Web links
- Palais Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Palais Bluff on geographic.org (English)