Yoshida Bluff

Yoshida Bluff () is a flat-topped bluff which rises to 2000 m at the north side of the head of

Carlyon Glacier Carlyon Glacier () is a large glacier which flows east-southeast from the névé east of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray. It was mapped in 1958 by the Darwin Glacier party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956– ...

Cook Mountains The Cook Mountains is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica. Parts of the group were first viewed from the Ross Ice Shelf by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04). Additional portions of t ...

. The bluff is midway between

Mill Mountain Mill Mountain () is a large flat-topped mountain, high, forming the eastern end of Festive Plateau in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica. This mountain was probably sighted by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under Captain Rob ...

and Kanak Peak and is ice-covered except for rock cliffs at the south and west sides. Named after Yoshio Yoshida of the

National Institute of Polar Research is the Japanese research institute for Antarctica. This agency manages several research bases on Antarctica. Research centers The NIPR has several research centers on Antarctica topics. Among others there are meteorological, geological, glac ...

, Japan, geochemist with

Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition The refers to a series of Japanese Antarctic expeditions for scientific research. The first JARE expedition was launched in 1957 to coordinate with the International Geophysical Year. This was the team which left 15 dogs, including Taro and Ji ...

(JARE) in four field seasons in the

McMurdo Dry Valleys The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The Dry Valleys experience extremely low humidity and surrounding mountains prevent the flow of ice from nearby ...

, 1963–64 to 1973–74. Cliffs of Oates Land {{OatesLand-geo-stub