Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Williamson Bluff (GBR) | 68° 05' 00.0" S | 65° 41' 00.0" W | Bluff |
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Name ID: 111960
Place ID: 16089
rising to 1010m at head of Trail Inlet, Bowman Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1947-48; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after The Rev. William Williamson (1804-75), English mathematician and law- yer, who made one of the earliest measurements of the surface flow of a glacier, in Switzerland in 1844 (APC, 1977, p.35). |
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| Williamson Bluff (USA) | 68° 05' 00.0" S | 65° 42' 00.0" W | Bluff |
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Name ID: 133736
Place ID: 16089
A flat-topped bluff more than 1,000 m high near the head of Trail Inlet on the E coast of Graham Land. The upper part of the bluff is snow topped, but the sides are steep and rocky. The bluff extends from the E side of Bills Gulch, 4 mi NE of Mount Shelby. First photographed from aircraft by personnel of USAS on a flight of Sept. 28, 1940. Named by UK-APC after the Rev. William Williamson (1804-75), British mathematician and lawyer who made one of the earliest measurements of the surface flow of a glacier, in Switzerland, 1844. |
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