Carpenter Nunatak
| Carpenter Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Carpenter nunatak is an isolated nunatak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the southern part of the Prince Charles Mountains, it looms between Mount Mather and the Mount Menzies massif .
A dog sled team mapped him in 1961 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from the summit of Mount Menzies. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him after Geoffrey Denys Probyn Smith (1920-1991), carpenter ( English carpenter ) on the Mawson station in 1961.
Web links
- Carpenter Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carpenter Nunatak on geographic.org (English)