Name details

Esser Bluff

Esser Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Esser Bluff  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 134141

Feature type: Bluff (2f)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A rock bluff rising to c.600 m on the southeast margin of Turks Head Ridge, Ross Island. The bluff is 2km east-northeast of the more prominent and rocky Grazyna Bluff. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MF13

Named For

At the instance of P R. Kyle, named by -US-ACAN (2000) after Richard Esser, a member of New Mexico Tech field parties on Mount Erebus in the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons. Later a technician in the New Mexico Geochronology Lab at NM Tech where he has dated many rocks from Antarctica.

Location

Latitude:
77° 38' 14.3" S
-77.63730°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
166° 54' 30.9" E
166.90859°
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Altitude:
599 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 17_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-Feb-2001

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