Williamson Bluff is a flat-topped bluff more than high near the head of
Trail Inlet on the east coast of
Graham Land. The upper part of the bluff is snow topped, but the sides are steep and rocky. The bluff extends from the east side of
Bills Gulch
Bills Gulch () is a glacier on the southeast side of Hemimont Plateau, the northern of two glaciers flowing east from the plateau upland into the head of Trail Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land. This glacier was used by the sledge party un ...
, northeast of
Mount Shelby
Mount Shelby () is a mountain, 1,520 m, standing between Daspit Glacier and Bills Gulch at the head of Trail Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land. Discovered by members of East Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–41. I ...
. First photographed from aircraft by personnel of
United States Antarctic Service (USAS) on a flight of September 28, 1940. Named by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after the Rev.
William Williamson (1804–75), British mathematician and lawyer who made one of the earliest measurements of the surface flow of a
glacier, in Switzerland, 1844.
References
Cliffs of Graham Land
Bowman Coast
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