Miyoda Cliff
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Miyoda Cliff is a rock cliff rising to about 400 m at the northeast end of Rock Pile Peaks
Rock Pile Peaks
The Rock Pile Peaks are a cluster of peaks rising to 1,110 m between Wilson Pass and Rock Pile Point on Bermel Peninsula, Bowman Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica....

, Bermel Peninsula
Bermel Peninsula
The Bermel Peninsula is a rugged, mountainous peninsula, approximately 15 mi long and 7 mi wide, located at between Solberg Inlet and Mobiloil Inlet on the Bowman Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica...

, marking the south entrance point to Solberg Inlet
Solberg Inlet
Solberg Inlet is an ice-filled inlet 5 to 10 nautical miles wide, which recedes west 14 nautical miles between Rock Pile Peaks and Joerg Peninsula, on the east coast of Graham Land...

, Bowman Coast
Bowman Coast
The Bowman Coast is the portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Northrop and Cape Agassiz. It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in an aerial flight of December 20, 1928. It was named by Wilkins for Isaiah Bowman, then Director of the American Geographical Society....

. The cliff was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1940, the U.S. Navy, 1966, and was surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1946-48. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) in 1977 for Larry W. Miyoda, Station Manager, Palmer Station
Palmer Station
Palmer Station, on Anvers Island, is Antarctica's only US station north of the Antarctic Circle. Initial construction of the station finished in 1968. The station, like the other US Antarctic stations, is operated by the United States Antarctic Program....

, 1976; engineer, Siple Station
Siple Station
Siple Station, Antarctica was a research station in Antarctica , established in 1973 by Stanford's STAR Lab, to perform experiments that actively probed the magnetosphere using very low frequency waves...

, 1974.
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