Bourgeois Nunatakker
| Bourgeois Nunatakker | ||
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 Bourgeois Nunataks in the southwest of the map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Wilson Hills in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 54 ′ S , 158 ° 22 ′ E | |
The bourgeois nunatakkers are a group of nunatakkers on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They rise 19 km southwest of Governor Mountain in the Wilson Hills of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1970 after William L. Bourgeois, senior aircraft engineer in the US Navy and flight engineer of an LC-130 Hercules in Operation Deep Freeze in 1967 and 1968.
Web links
- Bourgeois Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bourgeois Nunataks on geographic.org (English)