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)
Vance Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Vance Bluff (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bluff
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A small ice-covered eminence, about 2,360 m above sea level, about 33 km south-east of Wilhoite Nunataks. The flat summit of the feature merges with the ice sheet to the north and west but there is a steep cliff on the southern side. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.
Named by USACAN after USS Vance, ocean station ship between New Zealand and McMurdo Sound during USN Operation Deepfreeze 1962.
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