Price bluff
| Price 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 ° 32 ′ S , 144 ° 34 ′ W | |
 The La Gorce Mountains (lower center left) with the Price Bluff |
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The Price Bluff is a large and up to 2,480 m high cliff in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the La Gorce Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains , it rises 8 km northeast of Mount Mooney near the head end of the Robison Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years between 1960 and 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1976 after Lieutenant Robert P. Price, flight observer on the flights to take aerial photographs during of operation Deep Freeze of 1965 and the 1966th
Web links
- Price Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Price Bluff on geographic.org (English)