The Furman Bluffs () are a line of steep ice bluffs that form the southeast side of

Philbin Inlet Philbin Inlet () is a narrow, ice-filled inlet about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long that indents the north end of Martin Peninsula between Murray Foreland and Slichter Foreland, on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. First mapped by United Sta ...

on Martin Peninsula,

Marie Byrd Land Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...

, Antarctica. First delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy

Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

in January 1947, they were named by the

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 ...

for Master Chief Quartermaster

James L. Furman James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

, U.S. Navy, a staff assistant assigned to Antarctic Task Force 43 from 1964 to 1967.

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Cliffs of Marie Byrd Land {{MarieByrdLand-geo-stub