Barnes Bluff is a projecting portion of Jones Bluffs

Jones Bluffs

Jones Bluffs is a high, mainly snow-covered bluffs rising south of Holt Glacier in the east part of Bear Peninsula, Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. First mapped by United States Geological Survey from air photos obtained by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947. Named by Advisory...

, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-northeast of Eckman Bluff

Eckman Bluff

Eckman Bluff is an angular bluff, mostly ice covered but with a steep southeast rock face, rising to about 350 m in the south part of Jones Bluffs, Bear Peninsula, on the Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken...

 on the east side of Bear Peninsula

Bear Peninsula

Bear Peninsula is a peninsula about 80 km long and 40 km wide which is ice covered except for several isolated rock bluffs and outcrops along its margins, lying 48 km 30 mi) east of Martin Peninsula on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land.First delineated from aerial photographs...

, Walgreen Coast

Walgreen Coast

The Walgreen Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Herlacher and Cape Waite, or between Bakutis Coast in the west, and Eights Coast. It is the easternmost part of Marie Byrd Land. It stretches from 114°12'W to 103°24'W. Eights Coast to the east is already part of Ellsworth Land...

, Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...

. It was mapped by the 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,...

 from surveys and from U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken in 1966, and named by 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...

 in 1977 after Lieutenant Commander John O. Barnes, U.S. Navy, Air Operations Officer, Operation Deep Freeze

Operation Deep Freeze

Operation Deep Freeze is the codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on...

, 1975–76 and 1976–77, and officer in charge of the NSFA winter detachment at McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...

, 1977.