Butler nunatakker
| Butler nunatakker | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Framnes Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 3 ′ S , 62 ° 24 ′ E | |
The Butler nunatakkers are a small group of nunatakkers in the Framnes Mountains in East Antarctica Mac Robertson Land . They rise up immediately north of the Tvitoppen .
They were mapped on the basis of surveys carried out from 1954 to 1962 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions' campaigns . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them in 1968 after William J. Butler, who was the chief diesel engine mechanic at Mawson Station in 1967.
Web links
- Butler Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Butler Nunataks on geographic.org (English)