Caird Nunatak
| Caird Nunatak | ||
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| height | 838 m | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 8 ′ 23 ″ S , 36 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Caird Nunatak is an 838 m high nunatak on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It looms between the Nineteen-sixteen Snowfield and the Fortuna Glacier .
The Nunatak is on the route that the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton set out in 1916 as part of the Endurance Expedition (1914–1917) with two companions to rescue the expedition members stranded on Elephant Island . Frank Worsley , next to Thomas Crean one of the two companions, described him as "[...] large, dome-shaped rock ... a signpost." The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 2014. The boat named James Caird , with the Shackleton, Worsley and Crean with Harry McNish , John Vincent (1879-1941) and Timothy McCarthy (1888-1917) sailed from Elephant Island to South Georgia between April 24 and May 8, 1916.
Web links
- Caird Nunatak . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)