Bessinger Nunatak

Bessinger Nunatak
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height	1640 m
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 5 ′ 40 ″ S , 64 ° 36 ′ 40 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 5 ′ 40 ″ S , 64 ° 36 ′ 40 ″ W

The Bessinger Nunatak is a 1640 m high, hill-shaped nunatak in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the southwestern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises at the southwest end of the Mackin Table and 5 km east of Mount Tolchin .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Lieutenant Colonel Donivan Bessinger Jr. (* 1936), officer on duty on the Amundsen -Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1963.

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