Vance Bluff
| Vance Bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 49 ′ S , 156 ° 55 ′ E | |
 Map sheet Wilhoite Nunataks from 1968 with Vance Bluff in the southeast of the map |
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The Vance Bluff is a small, icy rock cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 16 km north of the Laird Plateau from the ice sheet of the polar plateau . In contrast to the steep southern flank, the north and west sides are covered by ice masses.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the formation in 1965 after the USS Vance , a destroyer escort of the United States Navy , which served as a station ship in Operation Deep Freeze in 1962 in support of flights between New Zealand and McMurdo Station .
Web links
- Vance Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vance Bluff on geographic.org (English)