Name details

Vance Bluff

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139481

Feature type: Bluff

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 small ice-covered eminence, approximately 2400m above sea level, 34km southeast of Wilhoite Nunataks. The flat summit of the feature merges with the ice sheet to the north and west but there is a steep cliff on the southern side.

Named For

Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by US-ACAN after USS Vance, ocean station ship between New Zealand and McMurdo Sound during USN Operation Deepfreeze 1962.

Location

Latitude:
81° 49' 05.4" S
-81.81818°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
156° 57' 16.0" E
156.95444°
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Altitude:
2308 m
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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 22_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:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-May-1965

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