Hornblende Bluffs [SEP] continent
Hornblende Bluffs
The Hornblende Bluffs () are prominent bluffs that rise to , located southeast of Mount Ellery and near the head of Suvorov Glacier, in the Wilson Hills of Antarctica. The feature was so named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1963–64, who found the rock here contains the mineral hornblende.
Freeze 1965 and 1966.
Geological features Mount Ellery.
Mount Ellery () is a mountain, high, near the head of Suvorov Glacier, northwest of Hornblende Bluffs. The region was photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47. The position of the mountain was fixed on February 21, 1962, by Sydney L. Kirkby, surveyor with the ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) Thala Dan cruise led by Phillip Law. Named for Robert L. J. Ellery, a member of the Austratian Antarctic Exploration Committee of 1886.