Parker Bluff
| Parker Bluff | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 17 ′ S , 145 ° 38 ′ W | |
The Parker Bluff is a massive and rounded rock cliff in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises 8 km east of Mount Blackburn at the southern end of the California Plateau above the Van Reeth Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after John J. Parker, aerial photographer of the Navy squadron VX-6 of operation Deep Freeze of 1966 and the 1967th
Web links
- Parker Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Parker Bluff on geographic.org