Dibble Bluff () is a conspicuous rock bluff, south of
Marshall Cirque on the west side of
White Island White Island may refer to:
Places Oceania
*Whakaari / White Island, volcanic island in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
**2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption
*White Island (Otago), Dunedin, New Zealand
North America
*White Island, Paget, Bermuda
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,
Ross Archipelago
Ross Archipelago () is a name for that group of islands which, together with the ice shelf between them, forms the eastern and southern boundaries of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. The most northerly is Beaufort Island, then comes Ross Island, the De ...
. It rises abruptly from
McMurdo Ice Shelf
The McMurdo Ice Shelf is the portion of the Ross Ice Shelf bounded by McMurdo Sound and Ross Island on the north and Minna Bluff on the south. Studies show this feature has characteristics quite distinct from the Ross Ice Shelf and merits indiv ...
to over . It was 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 ...
(1999) after
Raymond R. Dibble of the Department of Geology,
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
The university is well know ...
, who investigated volcanic eruptions and the seismicity of nearby
Mount Erebus
Mount Erebus () is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley), the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. It is the sixth-highest ultra mountain on the continent.
With a summ ...
in five seasons, 1980–81 through 1984–85.
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References
Cliffs of the Ross Dependency
White Island (Ross Archipelago)
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