Boyd Nunatak
| Boyd Nunatak | ||
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| height | 90 m | |
| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 74 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Boyd Nunatak is a small nunatak in Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It rises 13 km southeast of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen on the south side of the Publications Ice Shelf .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . New mapping is being carried out as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it on May 18, 1971 after John S. Boyd, a physicist at Wilkes Station in 1965.
Web links
- Boyd Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boyd Nunatak on geographic.org (English)