Recely bluff
| Recely bluff | ||
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| location | Siple Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| part of | Mount Siple | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 10 ′ S , 125 ° 46 ′ W | |
 Map of the northwestern part of Siple Island with the Recely Bluff (top right) |
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The Recely Bluff is a cliff of rock and ice on the Siple Island before Bakutis Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . It rises on the northeast slope of Mount Siple at a distance of 11 km from its summit.
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Frank J. Recely Jr. (* 1938), ionospheric physicist of the United States Antarctic Research Program on Byrd Station in 1965.
Web links
- Recely Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Recely Bluff on geographic.org (English)