Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Horn Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Horn 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 prominent rock promontory on the northern side of an island off the coast of George V Land. The bluff rises to about 325 m above sea level and is marked by the columnar structure of the dolerite forming the upper part of it. It is on the western side of Deakin Bay. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after W.A. Horn of Adelaide, a patron of the expedition. The bluff was shown to be on an island, separated from the continental ice coast, by ANARE air photographs taken in 1962.
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