Bauhs-nunatak

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Bauhs-nunatak
height 2225  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 84 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E
Bauhs-Nunatak (Antarctica)
Bauhs-nunatak

The Bauhs nunatak is a 2225  m high nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises on the northern flank of the Walcott Firnfeld and around 6 km south-southeast of Mount Sirius .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Luvern Raphael Bauhs (1918-1980) of the United States Antarctic Program , an ionospheric researcher at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1959.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 133 (English).