Turbulence Bluffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Turbulence Bluffs (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bluff
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Three high bluffs with vertical faces on the north-west, merging with the ice-sheet to the south-east, on the eastern side of the Robert Glacier, Kemp Land, about 30 km north-east of Rayner Peak. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. First visited by I.R. McLeod and J Arthurson of ANARE on 21 February, 1965.
So named because of severe turbulence encountered while attempting a helicopter landing.
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