Boreas (Nunatak)
| Boreas | ||
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| height | 220 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Boreas is a 220 m high nunatak on the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 1.5 km southwest of the Nunatak Passat at the mouth of the Schytt Glacier in the Jelbart Ice Shelf .
The Nunatak was discovered and named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . It is named after the Boreas , a Dornier whale , which Lufthansa made available to the research trip as one of two aircraft. A survey was carried out during the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
See also
Web links
- Boreas Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boreas Nunatak on geographic.org (English)