Clark Nunatak
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 Map of the Byers Peninsula with the Clark Nunatak |
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| height | 147 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 40 ′ 4 ″ S , 60 ° 54 ′ 37 ″ W | |
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The Clark Nunatak (in Chile Cerro Negro , in Argentina Morro Negro , translated on both sides: Black Hill ) is a 147 m high nunatak in the western part of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises on the south side of the Rotch Dome .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after Daniel W. Clark, first mate on the brig Hersilia , operating in the waters around the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821 , who led the seal hunts on the southern beaches of Livingston Island and who reported on it belongs to the few surviving records about the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Clark Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clark Nunatak on geographic.org (English)