Pillar Bluff is a headland projecting 1.1 km from the southwest coast of Weddell Island in the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...

and forming the west side of the entrance to Pillar Cove.Pillar Bluff.
Falkland Islands. GeoNames Geographical Database It is located at , which is 9.3 km northwest of Race Point, 1.8 km northeast of

Horse Block The Horse Block is a sea stack of the Falkland Islands.Strange, Ian (1983) ''The Falkland Islands'' It is situated off the southwest coast of Weddell Island Weddell Island ( es, Isla San José) is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atla ...

, 4 km southeast of

Weddell Point Weddell Point () is a low, tussock-covered point forming the east side of the entrance to Schlieper Bay, on the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia. The name Cape Weddell was given by David Ferguson, Scottish geologist, during his ...

and 9.8 km west of Mount Weddell.

Maps

* ''The Falkland Islands''. Scale 1:401280 map. London: Edward Stanford, 1901 * Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007 * Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979
Falkland Islands.
Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998
''Map 500k--xm20-4''.
1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)

Scale 1:1500000 chart. Gps Nautical Charts, 2010
Illustrated Map of Weddell Island

Gallery

File:Weddell-Island-Map-1901.png, Old map of Weddell Island featuring Pillar Bluff Weddell-Island-Map.png, Map of Weddell Island

Notes

References

* B. Stonehouse (ed.). ''Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans''. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 404 pp. * C.H. Barnard
''A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard, in a Recent Voyage Round the World, Including an Account of His Residence for Two Years on An Uninhabited Island''.
New York: J.P. Callender, 1836 * P.P. King and R. Fitzroy
''The South America Pilot''.
''Part II. From the Rio de la Plata to the Bay of Panama, including Magellan Strait, the Falkland, and Galapagos Islands''. Fifth Edition. London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1860. pp. 116–118

External links

Weddell Island Official Website

Weddell Island from space.
NASA Johnson Space Center, 30 April 2005 Headlands of the Falkland Islands {{Weddell-Island-geo-stub