Doolittle Bluff

Doolittle Bluff (-77.61667°N, 162.63333°W) is the large rock bluff at the head of Suess Glacier, on the north side of Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. From the Suess Glacier névé, the bluff rises 500 m to a summit area at 1,835 m. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (1997) after John H. (Jack) Doolittle, an American physicist who was: Station Science Leader at Siple Station, winter party 1977; Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Space Physics Laboratory, from 1983; and Staff Physicist there from 1993; a continuous participant as a South Pole co-investigator in auroral studies since 1983; and made 20 working visits to Antarctica (McMurdo, Siple and South Pole Stations) from the 1975–76 season.