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Retreat Bluffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Retreat Bluffs (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bluff
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Rising to approx. 100 m.a.s.l. three short sections of sub-vertical cliffs emerging from Stwosz Icefall, King George Island, South Shetland Islands. Cliff sections are separated by a thin tongue and they are flanked on both sides by ice cliffs. The cliffs emerged due to the retreat of Stwosz Icefall. (APC, 1998).
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