Cantrill Nunatakker
| Cantrill Nunatakker | ||
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| Highest peak | North Sim Peak ( 1566 m ) | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Sweeney Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 3 ′ S , 69 ° 17 ′ W | |
The Cantrill Nunatakker are a small group of up to 1566 m high nunatakkers in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . They tower north-northwest of Mount Jenkins and northeast of Mount Ballard in the Sweeney Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey conducted surveys between 1961 and 1962. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2004 after the geologist David J. Cantrill of the British Antarctic Survey , who searched for plant fossils in the area in three Antarctic summer campaigns between 1999 and 2002 .
Web links
- Cantrill Nunataks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)