Wilson Bluff
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 20 ′ S , 66 ° 47 ′ E | |
The Wilson Bluff is a large cliff, flattened at the summit edge, in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It lies at the head of the Lambert Glacier and 26 km west-northwest of Mount Borland . The formation has an extension of 8 km² and is characterized by a moraine extending several kilometers to the northeast .
The cliff was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . In 1958 it was visited by an air-assisted team led by the Australian geodesist Graham Alexander Knuckey (1934–1969). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the formation after Hugh Overend Wilson (1924-1959), Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Air Force and pilot at Mawson Station in 1958, shortly after his return to Australia in an airplane accident had died.
Web links
- Wilson Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wilson Bluff on geographic.org (English)