Sperm Bluff
| Sperm Bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Clare Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 5 ′ S , 161 ° 36 ′ E | |
The Sperm Bluff is a striking, 5 km long and over 1000 m high cliff in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the northeast end of the Clare Range in the Transantarctic Mountains .
It was mapped and named by participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Name factor was the shape of the cliff from the east line of sight, in the north side of the head of a sperm whale ( English sperm whale ) recalls.
Web links
- Sperm Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sperm Bluff on geographic.org (English)