Wrigley Bluffs
| Wrigley Bluffs | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 34 ′ S , 63 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Wrigley Bluffs are 6 km long and up to 860 m high cliffs in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the northern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, they rise 5 km north of Mount Cross in the Anderson Hills .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1968 after Richard J. Wrigley, who was responsible for the equipment at the Palmer station in Antarctica Winter 1966.
Web links
- Wrigley Bluffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wrigley Bluffs on geographic.org