Abel Nunatak
| Abel Nunatak | ||
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| height | 200 m | |
| location | Trinity Peninsula , Graham Land | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 32 '46 " S , 57 ° 42' 18" W | |
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The Abel Nunatak is an approximately 200 m high nunatak in graham land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the easternmost of two isolated Nunatakkers on the south side of Broad Valley on the Trinity Peninsula .
The area was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1960 to 1961. It is named after the biblical figure of Abel . The second nunatak to the west was consequently named Kain-Nunatak .
Web links
- Abel Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abel Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
- Abel Nunatak on a topographic map of the Trinity Peninsula, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (English and German)