Page Bluff () is a bluff rising to about 1,250 m at the east end of
Crescent Scarp
Crescent Scarp () is a conspicuous, north-facing escarpment of rock and ice cliffs, rising to on the south side of Fleming Glacier in northern Palmer Land. It was roughly surveyed from the ground by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936–3 ...
in northern
Palmer Land
Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...
. Photographed from the air by
United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1940, and surveyed by
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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(FIDS), 1958. Named by
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 ...
(US-ACAN) in 1977 after
John H. Page, geodesist,
U.S. Army Topographic Command
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(later
Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/
Topographic Center),
Scientific Leader,
Palmer Station, winter party 1969.
Cliffs of Palmer Land
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