Stauffer Bluff
| Stauffer Bluff | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Mount Takahe | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 10 ′ S , 111 ° 46 ′ W | |
 Topographic map of Mount Takahe with the Stauffer Bluff |
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The Stauffer Bluff is a rocky cliff in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises on the northeast side of Mount Takahe .
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 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the Swiss geophysicist Bernhard Stauffer (* 1938), who participated in two summer campaigns between 1968 and in 1970 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program on the Byrd station worked.
Web links
- Stauffer Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stauffer Bluff on geographic.org (English)