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Doolittle Bluff ({{Coord|77|37|S|162|38|E|source:GNIS|display=inline,title}}) 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 {{convert|500|m}} to a summit area at {{convert|1,835|m|-1}}. 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. References }}{{usgs-gazetteer|id=17371}}Doolittle Bluff is the ridge on the left that rises above the Suess Glacier which spills into Taylor dry valley. {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub}} 2 : Cliffs of Victoria Land|McMurdo Dry Valleys |