Rowe Bluff () is a bluff rising to 1,200 m on the north side of
Trail Inlet,
Bowman Coast
The Bowman Coast is the portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Northrop and Cape Agassiz. It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in an aerial flight of December 20, 1928. It was named by Wilkins for Isaiah Bowman, th ...
, 5 nautical miles (9 km) northeast of
Williamson Bluff. The bluff was photographed from the air by
Lincoln Ellsworth, November 21, 1935, and was mapped from these photographs by
W.L.G. Joerg Wolfgang Louis Gottfried Joerg, better known as W. L. G. Joerg (February 6, 1885 – January 7, 1952) was an American geographer, and in particular an expert in the geography of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, who exercised broad influence on the ...
. It appears in subsequent American photographs from
United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1940, and was surveyed by
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1946–48. 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 for Lieutenant Commander
Gary L. Rowe, USCG,
Engineer Officer
An engineering officer can be a Merchant Navy engineer or a commissioned officer with responsibility for military engineering, typically used in the British Armed Forces.
In the Royal Navy, Engineering Officers are responsible for the materi ...
on USCGC
Burton Island,
U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze
Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. (There w ...
, 1975.
Cliffs of Graham Land
Bowman Coast
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