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Sheridan Bluff
Sheridan
Bluff
is an
Antarctic
bluff at the
south side
of the junction of
Poulter Glacier
and
Scott Glacier
,
2 miles
east-southeast of
Mount Saltonstall
, in the
Queen Maud Mountains
. Mapped by
United States Geological Survey
from surveys and U.S.
Navy
aerial photographs
, 1960–64. Named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
after Michael F. Sheridan, Professor of Geology,
Arizona State University
, a member of a
United States Antarctic Research Program
field
party
in this
area
during the 1978–79
season
.