Whalers Bluff
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| location | Signy Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 43 ′ S , 45 ° 39 ′ W | |
The Whalers Bluff ( English for Wahlfängererklippe ) is a 210 m high and steep cliff on Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It rises east of Port Jebsen .
The highest point of the cliff is recorded on a map by the Norwegian whaling captain Magnus Thoralf Joachim Moe (1878 - unknown) from 1913 as Consulens Hat . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the cliff in 1990 in memory of longstanding whaling in the waters around the Southern Orkney Islands.
Web links
- Whalers Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whalers Bluff on geographic.org (English)