Trine bluff
| Trine bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Admiralty Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 29 ′ S , 169 ° 9 ′ E | |
The Trigonella Bluff (English for triangle cliff ) is a 1245 m high and triangular in its base cliff in the Admiralty mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 10 miles west of Football Mountain on the northern flank of the Tucker Glacier .
Scientists from a campaign carried out from 1957 to 1958 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , who had set up a station for triangulation measurements on the cliff , used the descriptive name.
Web links
- Trigon Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trigon Bluff on geographic.org (English)