Blackburn Rovers F.C. | Blackburn | Tony Blackburn | Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl | Paul Blackburn | Simon Blackburn | Robert Blackburn (artist) | Robert Blackburn | Olly Blackburn | Blackburn Cathedral | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize | Percy Quin | Marsha Blackburn | John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn | Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl | Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl | Robin Blackburn | Quin Abbey | George Blackburn (footballer born 1899) | George Blackburn | Estelle Blackburn | Derek Blackburn | Corporation Park, Blackburn | Clarice Blackburn | Blackburn railway station, Melbourne | Blackburn Buccaneer | Blackburn Botha | Blackburn Athletic F.C. | Benjamin B. Blackburn | Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn |
It was discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Captain Robert A. Bartlett of Brigus, Newfoundland, a noted Arctic navigator and explorer who recommended that the expedition acquire the Bear, an ice-ship which was purchased and rechristened by Byrd as the Bear of Oakland.
It was remapped in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Raymond Griffith of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who assisted in assembling motion-picture records of the expedition.
Discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a patron of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928-30 and 1933-35.
The name appears in Paul Siple's 1938 botany report on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1933–35, based on exploration of this vicinity by the expedition's geological party led by Quin Blackburn.
The escarpment was more closely observed in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and was named by Byrd for Thomas J. Watson, American business executive, a patron of this expedition.