Falla Bluff () is a prominent rocky coastal bluff at the head of

Utstikkar Bay Utstikkar Bay is a bay 4 miles (6 km) wide, indenting the coast immediately east of Utstikkar Glacier. It was first mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and was so named by t ...

. It was discovered in February 1931 by the

British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, dr ...

under

Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader dur ...

and named by him for

R.A. Falla Sir Robert Alexander Falla (21 July 1901 – 23 February 1979) was a New Zealand museum administrator and ornithologist. Early life Falla was born in Palmerston North in 1901 to George Falla and his wife, Elizabeth Kirk. As his father was work ...

, ornithologist with the expedition.

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Cliffs of Mac. Robertson Land {{MacRobertsonLand-geo-stub