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)
Fontaine Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fontaine 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 bluff 7 km west of Cape Murray and 6 km north of Cheney Bluff, on the southern side of Carlyon Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Lt. Cdr. R K Fontaine, USN, commander of USS Hissem on ocean station duty in support of aircraft flights between New Zealand and McMurdo Sound during Operation Deepfreeze 1964.
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