Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Duclos-Guyot Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Duclos-Guyot Bluff (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The ice-covered peak rising to 1800 m at the S extremity of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands. Situated 2.9 km NW of Cape Bowles, 5.6 km E of Craggy Point and 2.4 km S of Mount Irving. Precipitous and partly ice-free S slopes. Surmounts Skaplizo Glacier to the W and Dobrodan Glacier to the NE. British mapping in 1972 and 2009. Named after the French mariner Nicolas Pierre Duclos-Guyot (1722-1794), second in command under Louis Antoine de Bougainville in the first French circumnavigation of the world, who sailed in Antarctic waters onboard the Spanish ship Le¢n in 1756.
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