Feature Name (see definition): Dietz Bluff

Feature Class (see definition): Cliff

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 3859

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 72° 02' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 062° 08' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -72.0333333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -62.1333333

Elevation (see definition): No data

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Description (see definition): A prominent bluff at the head of Hilton Inlet on the Black Coast, Palmer Land. The bluff was photographed from the air by U.S. Antarctic Service (USAS), 1940, and by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947; mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1966-69. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN), in association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, after Robert S. Dietz, American marine geologist with Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida, from 1967.

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