# Mercury Bluff

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{{Short description|Mercury Coast}}thumb|Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
thumb|Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
'''Mercury Bluff''' is a perpendicular bluff on [Gerlovo Beach](/source/Gerlovo_Beach) in the northwest of [Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula](/source/Ioannes_Paulus_II_Peninsula), [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica).  The area was visited by early 19th century [sealers](/source/seal_hunting).

The feature is named after the British [sealing](/source/seal_hunting) ship ''Mercury'' under Captain Robert Wetherell that operated out of the nearby [Shirreff Cove](/source/Shirreff_Cove) in 1820–21.

==Location==
The point is located at {{coord|62|29|23.6|S|60|49|27.6|W|}} which is 3.9 km south-southwest of [Cape Shirreff](/source/Cape_Shirreff), 2.28 km north of [Kudoglu Point](/source/Kudoglu_Point) and 12 km north-northeast of [Rowe Point](/source/Rowe_Point) and 20.85 km east-northeast of [Essex Point](/source/Essex_Point) (British mapping in 1821 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

==Maps==
* L.L. Ivanov et al. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands](/source/%3Acommons%3AImage%3ALivingston-Greenwich-map.jpg). Scale 1:100000 [topographic map](/source/topographic_map). Sofia: [Antarctic Place-names Commission](/source/Antarctic_Place-names_Commission) of Bulgaria, 2005.
* L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands]. Scale 1:120000 topographic map.  Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.  {{ISBN|978-954-92032-6-4}}

==References==
* [http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/ SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer].

Category:Cliffs of Livingston Island

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