Banded Bluff () is a prominent bluff in Antarctica. It is about long, rising southeast of

McKinley Nunatak Liv Glacier is a steep valley glacier, long, emerging from the Antarctic Plateau just southeast of Barnum Peak and draining north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter Ross Ice Shelf between Mayer Crags and Duncan Mountains. It was discovered ...

, where it forms a part of the east wall of

Liv Glacier Liv Glacier is a steep valley glacier, long, emerging from the Antarctic Plateau just southeast of Barnum Peak and draining north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter Ross Ice Shelf between Mayer Crags and Duncan Mountains. It was discovere ...

. It was so named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

because of the alternate bands of snow and rock which mark the steep face of the bluff.

References

Cliffs of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{RossDependency-geo-stub