Abbey Nunatak
| Abbey Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1075 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 37 '0 " S , 134 ° 43' 0" W | |
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The Abbey-Nunatak is a 1075 m high nunatak in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises on the western flank of the Reedy Glacier immediately north of the mouth of the Kansas Glacier and about three kilometers southeast of the Penrod Nunatak .
It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Gordon Abbey (1933–1985), radio operator on Byrd Station in the winter of 1957.
Web links
- Abbey Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abbey Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1 (English).