Zuhn bluff
| Zuhn bluff | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Walker Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 17 ′ S , 98 ° 2 ′ W | |
The Zahn Bluff is a steep and north facing rocky cliff at the center of Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It rises in the Walker Mountains at a distance of 5 miles east-southeast of Mount Bramhall .
Its position was determined from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy as part of Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the formation in 1960 after Arthur A. Zuhn (1911-1986), physicist on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Zahn Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zuhn Bluff on geographic.org (English)