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The Furman Bluffs () are a line of steep ice bluffs that form the southeast side of Philbin Inlet on
Martin Peninsula Martin Peninsula () is a peninsula about 96 km (60) mi long and 32 km (20 mi) wide that is ice-covered except for a few rock outcrops along its margins, located between Getz Ice Shelf and Dotson Ice Shelf on the coast of Marie Byrd ...
, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. First delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947, they were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Master Chief Quartermaster James L. Furman,
U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...
, a staff assistant assigned to Antarctic Task Force 43 from 1964 to 1967.


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