Blackburn Nunatak
| Blackburn Nunatak | ||
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| height | 965 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 48 ′ 49 ″ S , 66 ° 11 ′ 19 ″ W | |
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The Blackburn Nunatak is a 965 m high nunatak in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . It marks the northern end of the Rambo Nunatakker in the Pensacola Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using 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 Archie B. Blackburn (1938-2016), officer on duty on the plateau Station in 1967.
Web links
- Blackburn Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blackburn Nunatak on geographic.org (English)