Bypass nunatak
| Bypass nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The bypass nunatak is a nunatak located in Mac-Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the David Range of the Framnes Mountains it rises 3.5 km south of the Tritoppen .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it Steinen (Norwegian for stone ), mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Participants in a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1958 renamed him. Name factor was the fact that the Nunatak a group of seismologists as a landmark for bypassing one with crevasses traversed area southwest served this Nunatak.
Web links
- Bypass Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bypass Nunatak on geographic.org (English)