Porphyry Bluff
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 28 ′ S , 59 ° 11 ′ W | |
The Porphyry Bluff is a striking rock cliff at the Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km inland between the banks of Larsen Inlet and Longing Gap .
Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from 1960 to 1961 were used to map it . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after the yellow-brown, quartz- and feldspar- containing porphyry rock from which it is made.
Web links
- Porphyry Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Porphyry Bluff on geographic.org (English)