Wiest bluff
| Wiest bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 22 ′ S , 176 ° 22 ′ W | |
The Wiest Bluff is a striking cliff up to 2160 m high in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the western foothills of the Cumulus Hills in the Queen Maud Mountains , it rises immediately north of the confluence of the Zaneveld Glacier with the Shackleton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after William G. Wiest, ionospheric researcher with the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1964.
Web links
- Wiest Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wiest Bluff on geographic.org (English)