Yeates Bluff
| Yeates Bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Alexandra chain in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 23 ′ S , 169 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Yeates Bluff is a steep, icy and mainly at the northern end of a 1,190 m high mountain peaks over ragtes cliff at the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain , it is 6 km northeast of Mount Nickerson between the Lennox King and Beaver glaciers .
Participants in a campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition carried out from 1959 to 1960 named it after Peter Alexander Yeates, who worked as a radio operator at Scott Base in 1958 and during this campaign .
Web links
- Yeates Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Yeates Bluff on geographic.org (English)