Tombaugh Cliffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tombaugh Cliffs (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cliff
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
on George VI Sound N of Pluto Glacier, E Alexander Island, following surveys by BAS from "Fossil Bluff" from 1961, were named in association with the glacier after Clyde William Tombaugh (b. 1906), American astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930 (APC, 1974, p.6; BA, 1974, p.209; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/14, 1-DOS 1974).
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