- Doolittle Bluff
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Doolittle Bluff (77°37′S 162°38′E / 77.617°S 162.633°E) is the large rock bluff at the head of Suess Glacier, on the north side of Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. From the Suess Glacier neve, the bluff rises 500 m to a summit area of 1,835 m. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after John H. (Jack) Doolittle, American physicist, Station Science Leader at Siple Station, winter party 1977; Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Space Physics Laboratory, from 1983; Staff Physicist from 1993; continuous participation as a South Pole co-investigator in auroral studies since 1983; 20 working visits to Antarctica (McMurdo, Siple and South Pole Stations) from the 1975-76 season.
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