Bigler Nunatakker
| Bigler Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 45 ′ S , 159 ° 55 ′ E | |
The Bigler Nunatakker are a group of prominent Nunatakkers south of the Pomerantz-Tafelland between Keim Peak and the Lovejoy Glacier in the Antarctic Victoria Land .
The area was mapped by surveys of the United States Geological Survey and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the Nunatakker after John C. Bigler, biologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program on the McMurdo - Station from 1966 to 1967.
Web links
- Bigler nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bigler Nunataks on geographic.org (English)