Witt Bluff
| Witt Bluff | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| part of | Planet Heights | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 16 ′ S , 68 ° 26 ′ W | |
The Witt Bluff is a cliff in the east of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It rises as the eastern end of a rock spur of the Planet Heights on the southwest flank of the Eros Glacier .
The British Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapped it together with the United States Geological Survey using satellite images from NASA . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 based on the name of the Eros Glacier after the German astronomer Gustav Witt (1866-1946), who discovered the asteroid (433) Eros in 1898 .
Web links
- Witt Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Witt Bluff on geographic.org (English)