Smith Bluff
| Smith Bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Nash Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 5 ′ S , 162 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Smith Bluff is a steep and rounded rock cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the west of the Nash Range it rises above the Algie Glacier west of the Ricker Dome .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Harold Theodore Uhr Smith (1908–1973), geologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program at McMurdo Station from 1963 to 1964.
Web links
- Smith Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Smith Bluff on geographic.org (English)