Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Witt Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Witt Bluff (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.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to c.500m on E side of Planet Heights, E Alexander Island, was roughly mapped by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1961-63 (Taylor, 1966, map Fig. 1, p.2) and further delineated from US LANDSAT imagery of January 1973; in association with the names of planets in this area and with Eros Glacier (q.v.), named after Carl Gustav Witt (1866-1946), German astronomer who discovered Eros in 1898 (APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/14, 2-DOS 1984).
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