Anare Nunatakker
| Anare Nunatakker | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Shaw ( 2035 m ) | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 58 ′ S , 64 ° 37 ′ E | |
The Anare Nunatakker are a group of mainly snow-capped mountain ridges with exposed peaks (so-called Nunatakker ) of up to 2035 m in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They rise 25.5 km south of the Stinear Nunatakker .
They were first visited in November 1955 by a team as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Mayston Béchervaise (1910-1998). The name is given by the acronym of the research trip (s).
Web links
- Anare Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Anare Nunataks on geographic.org (English)