Cameron Nunatakker
| Cameron Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 36 ′ S , 163 ° 43 ′ E | |
The Cameron Nunatakkers are a small group of Nunatakkers in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . At the southern end of the Freyberg Mountains they rise up on the western edge of the Evans Firnfeld .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using their own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1969 after Roy Eugene Cameron (* 1929), biologist at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic summer months from 1966 to 1967 and from 1967 to 1968.
Web links
- Cameron Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cameron Nunataks on geographic.org (English)