SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Floyd Bluff

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

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

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Place ID: 4753
Name ID: 193

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 small bluff adjacent to Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

Named For

Named Floyd Bluff as a play on the name of the leader of the 1986/87 ANARE summer expedition, Lloyd Fletcher.

Location

Latitude:

69° 23' 23.3" S

-69.38981°

Accurate to 25m

Longitude:

76° 23' 02.4" E

76.38399°

Accurate to 25m

Altitude:

115 m

Accurate to 10m

Images

©Adam Christensen 2009

Catalogue id: IA21773
Caption: Floyd Bluff, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1000 feet. Looking Southwest.
Photographer: Christensen, Adam

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Lars25K

Source Scale:

1:25000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

24-Nov-1987

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