Adams Nunatak
| Adams Nunatak | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 68 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Adams nunatak is a nunatak on the south side of the Neptune Glacier on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises about 10 km west of the Cannonball Cliffs .
It was mapped by the UK Ordnance Survey's Overseas Survey Directorate using NASA satellite imagery for the United States Geological Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in connection with the Neptune Glacier after the British mathematician John Couch Adams (1819-1892), who succeeded in proving the existence of the planet Neptune .
Web links
- Adams Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Adams Nunatak on geographic.org (English)