Cat Nunatak
| Cat Nunatak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cat Nunatak is a nunatak in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises from the ice masses of the southern part of the Wilson Piedmont Glacier halfway between Vince Nunatak and Hogback Hill .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 1994 in memory of the cats on board the ships Morning and Terra-Nova in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) and in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913), both sides under the Head of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Cat Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cat Nunatak on geographic.org (English)