Name details

Sheridan Bluff

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139604

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 bluff at the southern side of the junction of Poulter Glacier and Scott Glacier, 4.5km east of Mount Saltonstall, in the Queen Maud Mountains.

Named For

Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy (USN) aerial photographs, 1960-64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Michael F. Sheridan, Professor of Geology, Arizona State University, a member of a U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) field party in this area during the 1978-79 season.

Location

Latitude:
86° 53' 00.0" S
-86.88333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
153° 30' 00.0" W
-153.50000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
2246 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 27_29 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-Nov-1980

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