Anckorn Nunatakker
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 14 ′ S , 63 ° 12 ′ W | |
The Anckorn Nunatakker are a group of nunataks and snow-covered hills that are spread over a length of around 25 km between Mount Bailey and Mount Samsel in the east of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after the geologist John Fergus Anckorn (* 1949) from the British Antarctic Survey , who was active in the vicinity of this formation.
Web links
- Anckorn Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Anckorn Nunataks on geographic.org (English)