Brooks-Nunatak
| Brooks-Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1615 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 59 ′ 34 " S , 66 ° 14 ′ 56" W | |
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The Brooks Nunatak is a 1,615 m high and isolated nunatak in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 10 km southwest of Shurley Ridge on the south side of the Mackin Table .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Robert E. Brooks, a biologist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic summer between 1966 and 1967.
Web links
- Brooks Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brooks Nunatak on geographic.org (English)