Watson Bluff
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| location | David Island ( Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 25 ′ S , 98 ° 57 ′ E | |
The Watson Bluff is a 225 m high cliff of dark rock at the eastern end of David Iceland off the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie-country .
It was discovered by participants in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914) led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named it after Andrew Dougal Watson (1885–1963), a geologist on the expedition.
Web links
- Watson Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Watson Bluff on geographic.org (English)