Noxious Bluff

Noxious Bluff

Noxious Bluff (56°19′S 27°34′W / 56.317°S 27.567°W / -56.317; -27.567) is a dark bluff 50 m high on the southwest coast of Zavodovski Island, South Sandwich Islands. The name applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 refers to the volcanic fumes and generally forbidding nature of the locality.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Noxious Bluff" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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