SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Gibbs Bluff

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

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

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Place ID: 5299
Name ID: 187

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 on the Mawson Escarpment, Mac.Robertson Land between Arriens Glacier and England Glacier. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after W.J. Gibbs, (then) Director of Meteorology, Department of Science, Melbourne.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

73° 28' 43.0" S

-73.47861°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

68° 21' 38.0" E

68.36056°

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:

1:30000

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:

Unknown

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