Whitham Bluff
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 38 ′ S , 61 ° 7 ′ W | |
| location | Livingston Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters | New Plymouth | |
The Whitham Bluff is a rocky headland in the west of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the Byers Peninsula , it lies between Ocoa Point in the north and Laager Point in the south on President Beaches at the head of New Plymouth Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1993 after the sedimentologist Andrew Gordon Whitman (* 1960), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey from 1985 to 1988 .
Web links
- Whitham Bluff in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)