Windscoop Bluff
| Windscoop Bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 32 ' S , 164 ° 28' E | |
The Windscoop Bluff ( English for porch Cliff ) is a rock cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises to an altitude of around 1000 m east-northeast of the Birthday Bluffs on the south flank of the Mason Spur on the Scott coast .
The naming of the cliffs goes back to a proposal by the New Zealand geologist Anne Catherine Wright (* 1954, later married Wright-Grassham) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro , New Mexico , who explored the cliff between 1983 and 1984. It is named after a bulge at the foot of the cliff, reminiscent of a vestibule .
Web links
- Windscoop Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Windscoop Bluff on geographic.org (English)