Yoshida Bluff () is a flat-topped bluff which rises to 2000 m at the north side of the head of
Carlyon Glacier
Carlyon Glacier () is a large glacier which flows east-southeast from the névé east of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray. It was mapped in 1958 by the Darwin Glacier party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956†...
in
Cook Mountains
The Cook Mountains () is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica.
They are south of the Worcester Range and north of the Darwin Mountains and the Britannia Range.
Early exploration and naming
Parts of t ...
. The bluff is midway between
Mill Mountain and
Kanak Peak and is ice-covered except for rock cliffs at the south and west sides. Named after
Yoshio Yoshida of the
National Institute of Polar Research
is the research institute responsible for scientific research and observation of the polar regions. NIPR manages several observation stations in the Arctic and Antarctica. It was founded in 1973.
Research topics
The NIPR conducts Arctic observa ...
, Japan, geochemist with
Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition
The refers to a series of Japanese Antarctic expeditions for scientific research.
The first JARE expedition was launched in 1957 to coordinate with the International Geophysical Year. This was the team which left 15 dogs, including Taro and Ji ...
(JARE) in four field seasons in the
McMurdo Dry Valleys
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely Antarctic oasis, snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The Dry Valleys experience extremely low humidity and surrounding mountains prevent the flow of ...
, 1963–64 to 1973–74.
Cliffs of Oates Land
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