Branson Nunatak
| Branson Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Branson nunatak is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Framnes Mountains it rises between Mount Burnett and Price Nunatak .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it as Horntind (Norwegian for Hornspitze ), mapped it using aerial photos taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) renamed it after the geophysicist John C. Branson, who worked at Mawson Station in 1962 .
Web links
- Branson Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Branson Nunatak on geographic.org (English)