Name details

Prior Bluff

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 200

Feature type: Bluff

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A rock bluff in the central part of the Mawson Escarpment, between Manning Glacier and Greenall Glacier. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after L.S. Prior, (then) Assistant Director, Geophysics, of the (then) Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australian Department of Minerals and Energy.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 12' 29.0" S
-73.20806°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
68° 14' 43.0" E
68.24528°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)
Source Identifier:
E133_CIR_432_1X
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
27-Nov-1973

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