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Feature Name (see definition): Esser Bluff Feature Class (see definition): Cliff Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica) Feature ID (see definition): 17831 Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 77° 38' 00" S Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 166° 54' 00" E Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -77.6333333 Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 166.9 Elevation (see definition): 600 Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/2000 Description (see definition): A rock bluff rising to c.600 m on the SE margin of Turks Head Ridge, Ross Island. The bluff is 1.1 mi ENE of Grazyna Bluff. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2000) after Richard Esser, a member of New Mexico Tech field parties on Mount Erebus in the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons; later a technician in the New Mexico Geochronology Lab at NM Tech, where he has dated many rocks from Antarctica. Date Created (see definition): 10/25/2000 Date Edited (see definition): No data NOTE: The information regarding Esser Bluff in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Esser Bluff information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Esser Bluff should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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