Blake Nunatakker
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 10 ′ S , 66 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Blake nunatakkers are a group of three nunatakkers in Mac-Robertson Land, East Antarctica . They extend in a northeast-southwest orientation between Wilson Bluff and Mount Maguire near the head end of the Lambert Glacier .
John Michael Seaton, flight officer of the Royal Australian Air Force , discovered them in November 1956 during a reconnaissance flight as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them in 1959 after John Roger Blake (* 1936), aurora researcher at Mawson Station in 1958.
Web links
- Blake Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blake Nunataks on geographic.org (English)