Bacharach Nunatak

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Bacharach Nunatak
height 2000  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 66 ° 40 '59 "  S , 65 ° 9' 58"  W Coordinates: 66 ° 40 '59 "  S , 65 ° 9' 58"  W
Bacharach-Nunatak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Bacharach Nunatak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Bacharach Nunatak is a 2000  m high and distinctive Nunatak in Grahamland in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises from the northern arm of the Drummond Glacier .

Aerial photographs taken by pilots from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. Created between 1955 and 1957, the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey were used for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the Nunatak in 1958 after the British biochemist Alfred Louis Bacharach (1891-1966), whose research helped to overcome problems in the nutrition of expedition teams in polar regions.

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