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Duclos-Guyot Bluff

Coordinates: 61°17′58″S 54°07′28″W / 61.29944°S 54.12444°W / -61.29944; -54.12444
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Location of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Clarence Island seen from northeast with (left to right) Cape Bowles; Dobrodan Glacier and Highton Glacier surmounted by Duclos-Guyot Bluff and Mount Irving; Treskavets Glacier, Orcho Glacier and Banari Glacier surmounted by Ravelin Ridge; and Cape Lloyd.

Duclos-Guyot Bluff (Bulgarian: връх Дюкло Гийо, ‘Vrah Duclos-Guyot’ \'vrah dyu-'klo gi-'yo\) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1800 m at the south extremity of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has precipitous and partly ice-free south slopes, and surmounts Skaplizo Glacier to the west and Dobrodan Glacier to the northeast.

The peak is named after the French mariner Nicolas Pierre Duclos-Guyot (1722-1794), second in command under Louis Antoine de Bougainville in the first French circumnavigation of the world, who sailed in Antarctic waters on board the Spanish ship León in 1756.

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Duclos-Guyot Bluff is located at 61°17′58″S 54°07′28″W / 61.29944°S 54.12444°W / -61.29944; -54.12444, which is 2.9 km northwest of Cape Bowles, 5.6 km east of Craggy Point and 2.4 km south of Mount Irving. British mapping in 1972 and 2009.

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This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.