Ceres Nunatakker
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 70 ° 25 ′ W | |
The Ceres Nunatakkers are a group of three Nunatakkern in the south of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise east of the base of the Shostakovich Peninsula .
The British Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapped them in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey using satellite images provided by NASA . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on December 20, 1974 after the dwarf planet Ceres , the largest object in the asteroid belt .
Web links
- Ceres nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ceres Nunataks on geographic.org (English)