Styles bluff
| Styles bluff | ||
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| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Edward VIII Plateaus | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 41 ′ S , 57 ° 18 ′ E | |
The Styles Bluff is a light-colored top cliff in East Antarctic Kemp Land . It rises 1.5 km north of Cape Gotley on the southeast side of the Edward VIII Plateau .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited it in February 1961. It is named after the Australian government official Donald Franklin Styles (1916–1995), deputy director of the Australian Antarctic Division , who participated in this visit.
Web links
- Styles Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Styles Bluff on geographic.org (English)