Abele-Nunatak
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 Map sheet, with Abele-Nunatak on the eastern edge |
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| height | 1212 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 143 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Abele-Nunatak is a 1212 m high nunatak , which lies around three kilometers east of the Hutcheson-Nunatakker in the area where the Balchen Glacier was formed in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd Land .
It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Clarence Arthur Abele Jr. (1911–1978), a member of the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Abele Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abele 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. 2 (English).