Shockley Bluff
| Shockley Bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Deception plateaus in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 22 ′ S , 164 ° 56 ′ E | |
The Shockley Bluff is a very steep cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the southern end of the Deception Plateau and towers over the place where the Pilot Glacier joins the Aviator Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the cliff using its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1969 after Lieutenant Commander William E. Shockley, head of the Navy's squadron VX-6 at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1966.
Web links
- Shockley Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shockley Bluff on geographic.org (English)