Klimov Bluff is a partly ice-free east-facing bluff, located at the southeast end of Jenkins Heights

Jenkins Heights

Jenkins Heights is a broad ice-covered area rising over 500 m and covering some 25 square miles, located south of McClinton Glacier and west of Mount Bray on Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959-66...

, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) southeast of Mount Bray

Mount Bray

Mount Bray is a rounded mountain that is ice-capped but has a steep, bare rock southeast face, situated east of Jenkins Heights and northwest of Klimov Bluff on the Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos,...

, 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...

. Mapped 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 air photos, 1959-66. Named by 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) after L.V. Klimov, Soviet exchange scientist who wintered 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...

 in 1966. He accompanied the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) Marie Byrd Land Survey party, 1966-67.