Red Dike Bluff
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 48 ′ S , 162 ° 19 ′ E | |
 Topographic map (1: 250,000) with the Red Dike Bluff (bottom left) |
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The Red Dike Bluff ( English for Roter-Deich-Klippe ) is a distinctive rock cliff on the Hillary Coast in the south of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It looms south of the Trepidation Glacier on the eastern flank of the Skelton Glacier .
The New Zealand crew of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) carried out measurements and descriptive naming in 1957 . It is named after the reddish rock that makes up the dike-like cliff.
Web links
- Red Bluff Dike in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Red Dike Bluff on geographic.org (English)