- Miller Bluffs
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Miller Bluffs (77°35′S 85°45′W / 77.583°S 85.75°W) is a line of steep, east-facing bluffs about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long which extend west-northwest from the mouth of Newcomer Glacier in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. The north end of the feature was photographed by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of November 23, 1935. The bluffs were mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1961 from air photos obtained by U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 in 1959. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for the Hon. George P. Miller, former chairman of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, whose great interest in Antarctic activities was of assistance in assuring successful completion of U.S. research of that continent, 1958-72.
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