Black Nunatakker
| Black Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Grove Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 59 ′ S , 74 ° 28 ′ E | |
The Black Nunatakker are a group of around nine Nunatakkers in Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . In the Grove Mountains they are 10 miles west-southwest of Mount Harding .
The nunatakkers were mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1960 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it on July 29, 1965 after the Australian geophysicist Ian E. Black, who worked at Mawson Station in 1963 .
Web links
- Black Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Black Nunataks on geographic.org (English)