Braddock Nunatakker
| Braddock Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Dyer Plateaus | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 48 ′ S , 65 ° 57 ′ W | |
The Braddock Nunatakker are a group of distinctive nunatakkers in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise up inland of the Bertram Glacier and 15 km southeast of the Perseus Crags on the western edge of the Dyer Plateau .
It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after Lieutenant Robert Lillard Braddock Jr. of the United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps , senior officer at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1974.
Web links
- Braddock nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Braddock Nunataks on geographic.org (English)