Reeves Bluffs is a line of east-facing rock bluffs, 8 nautical miles (15 km) long, situated 15 nautical miles (28 km) west of Cape Murray

Cape Murray

Cape Murray is a mainly ice-covered coastal bluff at the north side of the mouth of Carlyon Glacier, on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf Discovered by the Discovery expedition and named for George R.M. Murray, temporary director of the scientific staff of the expedition, who had accompanied...

 in the Cook Mountains

Cook Mountains

The Cook Mountains is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica. Parts of the group were first viewed from the Ross Ice Shelf by the British National Antarctic Expedition...

. Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901–04) under Captain Robert F. Scott, who gave the name "Mount Reeves

Mount Reeves

Mount Reeves is a mountain, 1,920 m, immediately northeast of Mount Bouvier on the east side of Adelaide Island. First sighted and roughly surveyed in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot. Resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named by them for Edward A...

," after Edward A. Reeves, Map Curator to the Royal Geographical Society

Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...

, to a summit along this bluff. The bluff was mapped in detail by United States Geological Survey

United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...

 (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography (1959–63). Since a prominent mountain

Mountain

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 does not rise from the bluffs, and because the name Mount Reeves is in use elsewhere in Antarctica, the 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) (1965) recommended that the original name be amended and that the entire line of bluffs be designated as Reeves Bluffs.