Bates Nunatakker
| Bates Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 15 ′ S , 153 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Bates nunataks are a group of three isolated nunataks in the Australian Antarctic Territory . They rise from the firn field of the Byrd Glacier 30 km west of Vantage Hill in the Britannia Range .
The team to explore the Darwin Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) discovered them. The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the New Zealand engineer James Gordon Bates (1924-2011), who accompanied Edmund Hillary on this research trip to the geographic South Pole.
Web links
- Bates nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bates Nunataks on geographic.org (English)