Fontaine Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fontaine Bluff (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bluff
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:
A bluff 9km west of Cape Murray and 7km north of Cheney Bluff, on the southern side of Carlyon Glacier. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MM07
Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by US-ACAN after Lt. Cdr. R K Fontaine, USN, commander of USS Hissem on ocean station duty in support of aircraft flights between New Zealand and McMurdo Sound during Operation Deepfreeze 1964.
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