Battlements Nunatak
| Battlements Nunatak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Battlements nunatak is a large nunatak in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises 10 km northwest of the Allan Hills at the head of the Mawson Glacier . The Nunatak is mainly ice-free and has several small minor peaks on a line west of the main peak.
The New Zealand team of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) discovered it and named it descriptively, as its peaks like the battlements (English battlements ) seem a castle.
Web links
- Battlements Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Battlements Nunatak on geographic.org (English)