Name details

Duclos-Guyot Bluff

Duclos-Guyot Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Duclos-Guyot Bluff  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Bulgaria Gazetteer Id 137894

Feature type: Peak (2d)

Origin

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

Narrative

The ice-covered peak rising to 1800 m at the S extremity of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands. Situated 2.9 km NW of Cape Bowles, 5.6 km E of Craggy Point and 2.4 km S of Mount Irving. Precipitous and partly ice-free S slopes. Surmounts Skaplizo Glacier to the W and Dobrodan Glacier to the NE. British mapping in 1972 and 2009. Named after the French mariner Nicolas Pierre Duclos-Guyot (1722-1794), second in command under Louis Antoine de Bougainville in the first French circumnavigation of the world, who sailed in Antarctic waters onboard the Spanish ship Le¢n in 1756.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
61° 17' 58.0" S
-61.29944°
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Longitude:
54° 07' 28.0" W
-54.12444°
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Altitude:
1800 m
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

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Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
21-Nov-2014

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